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I firmly believe that there is, and it is my purpose in this bo ok to try Around 1933, to the explain financial it so editor that you ofcan a great use it Los ifAngeles you desire. newspaper attended lect ures I gave to financial men in that city and read my brochure T.N.T. It Rocks t he Earth. You have caught Afterwards, from the he wrote etherthe something following: that has a mystical quality a something that Copyright explains 2010 theThe magic Princeton of coincidence, Licensingthe Group mystery Published of what by Princeton makes men Cambridge lucky. Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 7 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON I realized CAMBRIDGE that IPUBLISHING had run across GROUPsomething that was practical and workable. But I didnt consider it then neither do I now as anything mystical, except in the sense that it is unknown to the majority of people. This something has always been know n to a fortunate few down the centuries, but for some unknown reason it is still Years barely ago, understood when I started by the to average teachperson. this science by means of lectures and the med ium of my brochure, I wasnt certain that the concepts could be grasped by the ord

inary individual. But since then, I have seen those who have used it to double a nd triple their incomes, build their own successful businesses, acquire homes of their dreams, and create sizable fortunes. I am now convinced that any intellig ent person who is sincere with themselves can reach any heights they truly and h onestly desire. I had no intention of writing a second book, although many urged me to do so, until a woman in the book business who had sold many copies of my firsthave You little a duty bookto literally give to the readmen me and thewomen riot who actseek by stating: places for themselves in th e world, in easily understood form, the new material that you have given in your lectures. CopyrightEveryone 2010 Theof Princeton ambitionLicensing wants to Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 8 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON get ahead, CAMBRIDGE and you PUBLISHING have amply GROUP demonstrated that you have something that will hel p anyone. It took time Its toup sell to myself you to on pass the itidea. along. But having served as a soldier in World War I, mostly in France and Germany, and having been active for many years in e x-service mens organizations as well as a state commission for the rehabilitation of ex-service men and women, I realized that it would be hard for many individu als to make outstanding places for themselves in a world from which they had lon g been separated. It is with a sincere desire to help them, as well as all ambit ious men and women, that I write this more full and detailed exposition of the P ower of Belief. Thus, this work is written also to help develop individual think ing and Since this doing. book may fall into the hands of some who may call me a crackpot or sc rewball, let me say that I am past the half-century mark and have had many years of hard practical business experience as well as a goodly number of years as a newspaper man. I started as a police reporter. Police reporters are trained to g et facts and take nothing for granted. For a two year period I was church editor of a large metropolitan newspaper, during which I came in close contact with cl ergymen Copyright and 2010 leaders Theof Princeton all Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 9 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONand sects CAMBRIDGE denominations, PUBLISHING mind-healers, GROUP divine healers, Spiritualists, Christian Scientists, New Thoughters, Unity leaders, sun and idol worshipers and, yes, eve n a well-known The few infidels English and pagans. evangelist Gypsy Smith was making a tour of America at th at time. Night after night as I sat on his platform, watching people stumble dow n the I Again aisles, wondered some when sobbing, I accompanied others shouting the police hysterically, in answering I a wondered. riot call: some Ho ly Rollers in a moment of hysteria had knocked over a stove and set fire to thei r meeting hall. When I attended my first (and only) meeting of Shakers, I wonder ed as I did while attending various spiritualistic meetings. I wondered as I hea rd the testimonials at the Christian Scientists Wednesday night meetings. I wonde red when I watched a group of people immersed in the icy waters of a mountain st ream and coming up shouting Hallelujah! even though their teeth were chattering. I wondered at the Indians ceremonial dances and their rain- dance rituals. Billy S unday Copyright also caused 2010 The me Princeton to wonder Licensing as, in later Group years, Published did Aimee by Princeton Semple McPherson. Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 10 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON In France CAMBRIDGE during the PUBLISHING First World GROUPWar, I marveled at the simple faith of the peas ants and the powers of their village curees. I heard stories of miracles at Lour des, and of somewhat similar miracles at other shrines. When in a famous old Rom an church, I saw elderly men and women climb literally on their knees up a long flight of stairs to gaze upon a holy urn a climb that is no simple task for an a thletically Business brought trained me into youngcontact person with I wondered the Mormons, again. and when I heard the story of Joseph Smith and the revelations on the plates of gold, I was again given to wo nder. The Dukhobors of western Canada, who would doff their clothes when provoke d, likewise made me wonder. While in Hawaii I heard much about the powers of the kahunas who could, it was claimed, cause people to die or live by praying. The great In my early powersdays attributed as a newspaper to theseman, kahunas I saw profoundly a famous medium impressed tryme. to make spirits res pond before a crowded courtroom of antagonistic scoffers. The judge had promised to release the medium if he could get the spirits to speak in the courtroom. 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Many years NCETON wondered CAMBRIDGE why later, because PUBLISHING I wasthe commissioned mediums GROUP followers to write a had series testified of articles to remarkable on whatse the ances. p olice call the fortune-telling racket. I visited everyone from gypsy phrenologists to crystal-ball gazers, from astrologers to spiritualistic mediums. I heard wha t purported to be the voices of old Indian guides tell me the past, the present, a nd the future, Several times Iand have I been heardin from a hospital relatives room I never in which knewpeople existed. around me died, whi le others with seemingly worse ailments were up and apparently fully recovered w ithin a short time I have known of partially paralyzed people who got over their condition in a matter of days. I have known people who claim to have cured thei r rheumatism or arthritis by wearing a copper band around their wrists others by mental healing. From relatives and close friends I have heard stories of how wa rts on hands suddenly disappeared. I am familiar with the stories of those who p ermit rattlesnakes to bite them and still live; and with hundreds of other tales of Copyright mysterious 2010 happenings The Princeton and healings. Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 12 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Moreover, I have made PUBLISHING myselfGROUP familiar with the lives of great men and women of h istory and have met and interviewed many outstanding men and women in all lines of human endeavor. Often I have wondered just what it was that took them to the top. I have seen coaches take seemingly inferior baseball and football teams and infuse them with something that caused them to win. In the Depression days, I s aw badly whipped sales organizations do an abrupt about-face and bring in more b usiness manIever Apparently was born before. with a huge bump of curiosity, for I have always had an in satiable yearning to seek answers and explanations. This quest has taken me to m any strange places, brought to light many peculiar cases, and caused me to read every book I could get my hands on dealing with religions, cults, and physical a nd mental sciences. I have read literally thousands of books on modern psycholog y, metaphysics, ancient magic, Voodoo, Yoga, Theosophy, Christian Science, Unity , Truth, New Thought, Coueism, and many others dealing with what I call Mind Stuf f, Many Copyright as were well nonsensical, as the 2010 The philosophies Princeton others strange, Licensing and teachings and Group many of Published very great profound. masters by Princeton of the Cambridge past. Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 13 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Gradually I discovered PUBLISHING that a GROUP golden thread runs through all the teachings and m akes them work for those who sincerely accept and apply them, and that thread ca n be named in the single word belief. It is this same element or factor belief t hat causes people to be cured through mental healing, enables others to climb hi gh the ladder of success, and gets phenomenal results for all who accept it. Why belief works miracles is something that cannot be satisfactorily explained; but have no doubt that theres genuine magic in believing. The magic of believing becam e am I a phrase convinced around that which the so-called my thoughts secret steadily fraternal revolved. organizations guard a real roy al secret which very few members ever grasp. The conclusion must be that no mind e ver receives the truth until it is prepared to receive it. One order provides can didates with a very profound book (to be studied in connection with the degree w ork), which itself would be practically an open-sesame to life if the candidates could understand and follow its tenets. But few read it, complaining that it is too deep for them. I am convinced, too, that some of these organizations, like ma ny secret orders which possess a knowledge and understanding of life, use parabl esCopyright and misinterpretations 2010 The Princeton to mislead. Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 14 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON When T.N.T. CAMBRIDGE It Rocks PUBLISHING the Earth GROUPwas first published, I imagined that it would be easily understood since I had written it simply. But as the years went by, some readers protested that it was too much in digest form. Others said they couldnt u nderstand it. I had assumed that most people knew something about the power of t hought. Now I realize that I was mistaken, and those who had an understanding of the subject were comparatively few. Later, over many years of lecturing before clubs, business and sales organizations, I discovered that most people were vita lly interested in the subject, but that it had to be fully explained. Finally, I undertook to write this book in words that anyone can understand and with the h ope science The that it of will thought help many is as toold reach as man their himself. goals in The life. wise men of all ages have k nown it and used it. The only thing I have done is to put the subject in modern

language and bring to the readers attention what some of todays outstanding minds are doing to substantiate the great truths that have come down through the centu Fortunately for the world, people are coming to the realization that there is so ries. mething Copyright to this 2010mind-stuff The Princeton after Licensing all. IGroup believe Published that millions by Princeton of Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 15 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON would people CAMBRIDGE likePUBLISHING to get a better GROUP understanding of it and prove that it does wor k. Therefore, let me start by relating a few experiences from my own life, with the Early hope in that 1918, theyIwill landed give inyou France a better as a casual understanding soldier, of the unattached entire science. to a regular com pany. As a result, it was several weeks before my service record (necessary for my pay) caught up with me. During that period I had no money to buy gum, candy, cigarettes, and the like, since the few dollars I had before sailing had been sp ent at the transport ships canteen to relieve the monotony of the regular menu. E very time I saw a man light a cigarette or chew a stick of gum, it reminded me t hat I was without money to spend on myself. Certainly, I was eating, and the arm y clothed me and provided me with a place on the ground to sleep, but I grew bit ter at having no spending money and no way of getting any. One night enroute to the forward area on a crowded troop train when sleep was out of the question, I made up my mind that on my return to civilian life, I would have a lot of money. The Copyright whole pattern 2010 The ofPrinceton my life was Licensing alteredGroup at that Published moment.by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 16 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONICAMBRIDGE True, had been something PUBLISHINGof GROUP a reader in my youth; the Bible had been a must in our family. As a boy I was interested in wireless telegraphy. X- rays, high-fre quency apparatus, and similar manifestations of electricity, and I had read ever y book on these subjects I could find. But while I was familiar with such terms as radiation frequencies, vibrations, oscillations, magnetic influences, etc., i n those days they meant nothing to me outside of the strictly electrical field. Perhaps my first inkling of a connection between the mind and electrical or vibr atory influences came when upon my completing law school, an instructor gave me an old book, Thomson Jay Hudsons Law of Psychic Phenomena. I read it, but only su perficially. Either I did not understand it, or my mind was not ready to receive its profound truths. On that fateful night in the spring of 1918, when I told m yself that some day I would have a lot of money, I did not realize that I was la ying the groundwork for a series of causes which would unleash forces that would bring accomplishment. As a matter of fact, the idea never entered my mind that I could My Army classification develop a fortune card with listed my thinking me as a newspaper and believing. man I had been attending an Army Training School to qualify for a commission, but the whole training-school program Copyright was2010 discontinued The Princeton just Licensing as we finished Groupthe Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 17 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE course; thus mostPUBLISHING of us landed GROUP in France as enlisted men. However, I considered myself a qualified journalist and felt that there was a better place for me in t he American Expeditionary Force. Yet like many others, I found myself pushing wh eelbarrows Then one night and at lugging an ammunition heavy shells depot and near other Toul, ammunition. things began to happen. I was o rdered to appear before the Commanding Officer, who asked me whom I knew at Firs t Army Headquarters. I didnt know a soul there and didnt even know where it was lo cated, and I told him so. Then he showed me orders directing me to report there immediately. A car and driver were provided, and the next morning found me at Fi rst Army Headquarters in charge of a daily progress bulletin. I was answerable o nly to the During a colonel. months that followed, I frequently thought about the commission to wh ich I was entitled. Then the links began to form into a chain. One day, entirely out of a clear sky, came orders transferring me to the Stars and Stripes, the A rmy newspaper; I had long had an ambition to be on its staff, but had done nothi ngCopyright about it.2010 The The nextPrinceton day, as ILicensing was Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 18 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE preparing to leave PUBLISHING for Paris, GROUP I was called before the colonel who showed me a te legram signed by the Adjutant Generals office at GHQ, asking if I was available f or commission. The colonel asked whether I would rather have a commission than r

eport to the Army newspaper. Foreseeing that the war would soon end and I would be happier among other newspaper men, I said I would prefer the transfer to the Stars and Stripes. I never learned who was responsible for the telegram, but obv iously something Following the armistice, was working my desire in my to behalf. get out of the Army became insistent. I wa nted to begin building that fortune. But the Stars and Stripes did not suspend p ublication until the summer of 1919, and it was August before I got home. Howeve r, the forces I had unconsciously set in motion were already setting the stage f or me.nine-thirty the next morning after my arrival home, I received a telephone About call from the president of a club in which I had been active. He told me to cal l a prominent man in the investment banking business who had read about my retur n and had expressed a wish to see me before I resumed newspaper work. I called t heCopyright man and, 2010 two days The Princeton later, embarked Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 19 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON upon a long CAMBRIDGE career PUBLISHING as an investment GROUP banker, which later led me to the vice- pres idencymy While ofsalary a well-known was smart Pacific at the Coast start, firm. I realized that I was in a business wher e there were many opportunities to make money. Just how I was to make it was the n not revealed, but I just knew that I would have that fortune I had in mind In less than ten years, I did have it, and not only was it sizable, but I was a sub stantial stockholder in the company and had several outside profitable interests . During Many people those in moments years I of hadabstraction constantly or before while metalking a mental onpicture the telephone of wealth. engage i n doodling drawing or sketching odd designs and patterns upon paper. My doodling was in the form of dollar signs like these $$$$$ $$$$ $$$ $$ on every paper tha t came across my desk. The cardboard covers of all the files placed before me da ily were scrawled with these markings, as were the covers of telephone directori es, scratch-pads, and even the face of important correspondence. I want my reade rs to remember this detail, because it suggests the mechanics to be used in appl ying Copyright this magic 2010which The Princeton Ill explain Licensing in detail Group later. Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 20 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the During CAMBRIDGE past years, PUBLISHING I have GROUP found that by far the greatest problems bothering most todays With people are intense financial competition, ones. millions are facing the same kinds of problems. However, it matters little to what ends this science is used. It will be effecti ve in achieving the object of your desire and in this connection, let me tell an other experience. Shortly after the idea of T.N.T. It Rocks the Earth came to me but before I put it on paper, I took a trip to the Orient and sailed on the Empress of Japan, not ed for its excellent cuisine. In my travels through Canada and in Europe I had d eveloped a fondness for Trappist cheese made by the Trappist monks of Quebec. Wh en I couldnt find it on the ships menu, I laughingly complained to the chief stewa rd that I had sailed on his ship only to get some of the famous Trappist cheese. H e replied The more Ithat thought he was about sorry, it, the but more thereIwas hungered none aboard. for some of that cheese. One ni ght a ships party was held. Upon returning to my cabin quarters after midnight, I found a big table had been set up in one of the rooms. On it was the largest ch eese Copyright I had ever 2010seen. The Princeton It was Trappist Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 21 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONICAMBRIDGE Later cheese. asked thePUBLISHING chief steward GROUP where he found it. I was certain we had none aboa rd when you first mentioned it, he answered, but you seemed so set on having some, I made up my mind to search through all the ships stores. We found it in the eme rgency storeroom in the bottom of the hold. Something was working for me on that trip, too, for I had no claim to anything but ordinary service. However, I sat a t the executive officers table and was frequently his personal guest in his quart ers, as well Naturally theas treatment on inspection I received tripsmade through a great the impression ship. on me, and in Honolul u, I often thought how nice it would be to receive comparable attention on my jo urney home on another ship. One afternoon I got the sudden impulse to leave for the mainland. It was about closing time when I appeared at the ticket agency to ask what reservations I could get. 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THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON king onCAMBRIDGE the Empress PUBLISHING of Japan. GROUP The least you can do here is to sit at the captains The table. shipSure, got under youll way. sitAs atwe the steamed captains out of table. the harbor, the dining- room stewar d asked passengers to appear in the dining room for assignment to tables. When I came before him, about half the assignments had been made. He asked for my tick et, glanced at it and then at me, saying, Oh yes, table A, seat No. 5. It was the captains table, and I was seated directly across from him. Aboard that ship, many things happened which pertain to the subject of this book, the most prominent b eing a party supposed to be in honor of my birthday just an idea of the captains, Later, because when my I birthday found myself was actually lecturing, months I thought away. it would be wise to get a letter from the captain substantiating the story and I wrote him. He replied, Sometimes as we go through life, instinctively we get the idea to do this or that. That n oon I was sitting in the doorway of my cabin watching the passengers come up the gangplank, and as you came aboard, something told me to seat you at my table. B eyond that I cannot explain, any more than I can explain how I can frequently st opCopyright my ship at 2010 theThe right Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 23 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON spot People atwho CAMBRIDGE thehave pierheard PUBLISHING at the the first story GROUP try. and who know nothing about the magic of believin g have declared that it was mere coincidence that the captain selected me. I am positive it wasnt, and Im also certain that this captain (who knows quite a bit ab out this science) will agree with me. Aboard that ship were dozens of people far more important than I could ever be. I carried nothing to set me apart, being o ne of those who can pass in a crowd. So obviously it wasnt the clothes I wore or the way I looked that prompted the captain to pick me out of several hundred pas sengers In presenting to receive to you personal this very attention. workable science, I am aware that the subject has been handled before from many angles, but also realize that many people shy awa y from any approach that smacks of religion, the occult, or the metaphysical. Ac cordingly, I am using the language of a businessman who believes that sincere th inking, You haveclear oftenwriting, heard itand said simple that you language can if will youget believe any message you can. across. An old Latin p roverb Copyright says,2010 Believe The Princeton that you Licensing have it, and Group youPublished have it.by Belief Princeton is the Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 24 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE motivating force that PUBLISHING enables GROUP you to achieve your goal. If you are ill and imbed ded deeply within you is the thought or belief that you will recover, the odds a re that you will. Its the belief or the basic confidence within you that brings o utward material results. I speak of normal and mentally healthy people. I wouldnt tell a handicapped person that he could excel in baseball or football. Nor woul d I tell a woman who was quite plain- looking that she could make herself into a great beauty overnight, since the odds are against it. Yet these things could h appen, for there have been many remarkable cures. And when more is learned about the powers of the mind, I firmly believe that we shall witness many cures that todays medical profession deems impossible. Finally, I would never discourage any one; for in this life, anything can happen and what can help bring it to pass is Dr. Hope. Alexander Cannon was a distinguished British scientist and physician whose b ooks on the general subject of thought stirred up controversy here and abroad. H e declared that while today a man cannot grow a new leg (as a crab can grow a ne w claw), he could if the mind of man hadnt rejected the possibility. The eminent scientist claimed that if the thought is changed in the innermost depths of the unconscious Copyright 2010 mind,The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 25 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON then man CAMBRIDGE will grow PUBLISHING a new legGROUP as easily as the crab grows a new claw. I know, suc h a statement may sound incredible, but how do we know that it will not be done some day? I lunch with a group of medical men, all specialists in various branc Frequently hes of medicine and surgery. I know that if I voiced such an idea, they would su ggest that I have my head examined. However, I find that some of these doctors, especially those more recently graduated from our better schools, are no longer closing their minds to the role that thought plays in causing and curing functio nal A few disturbances weeks before inIthe wrote body. this chapter, a neighbor came to me to explain how hi

s warts happened to disappear. During a stay at the hospital, he had wandered ou t on the porch where another convalescent patient was conversing with a friend. Said the visitor to the other patient, So you would like to get rid of the warts on neighbor My your hand? said Well, he looked just let atme the count stranger them,for andatheyll moment,disappear. then said: While youre ab out it, will you count mine, too? He did, and my neighbor thought no more about i t Copyright until after 2010 he The had Princeton gone home Licensing and he happened Group Published to by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 26 Rights Group Reserved. 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Back in January, 1945, Columbia Universitys College of Physicians and Surgeons set up the first p sychoanalytic and psychosomatic clinic in this country for the purpose of studyi ng the relationship between the unconscious mind and the body. I kept silent, fe eling this Since that conversation, I was too outnumbered considerable for an publicity argument. was given to the findings of Dr. Frederick CopyrightKalz, 2010 The a noted Princeton Canadian Licensing authority Group whoPublished flatly by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 27 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON that stated CAMBRIDGE suggestion PUBLISHING worksGROUP in many cases, even to curing warts that are infect ious and caused by a virus. In a 1945 article in the Canadian Medical Associatio n Journal, Dr. Kalz declared that, In every country in the world, some magic proc edures to cure warts are known . . . It may be anything from covering the wart w ith spider-webs to burying toad eggs on a crossroad at new moon; all these magic procedures are effective, if the patient believes in them. In describing the tre atment of patients with skin trouble, he says, I have often prescribed the very s ame ointment, accompanied by some promising words, which has been tried unsucces sfully by some other medical man, and got credit for a quick cure. He also points out that X-ray therapy is especially suggestive; it works even when the technic ian fails to switch on the high power! Experiments with systematic fake irradiat ion bear out this observation. Here in Dr. Kalzs work we see actual examples of t he magic of believing at work in the curing of warts and the treatment of skin t Another time my medical friends and I were discussing telepathy. I remarked that rouble. some of our greatest students and scholars believed in it. Dr. Alexis Carrel, o f Copyright the Rockefeller 2010 The Institute Princeton forLicensing Medical Research, Group Published was notby Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 28 Rights Group Reserved. 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However, some medical specialists, especially those inclined to restrict their studies to their respective fields, refuse to accept anything tha t may upset their early teachings and dogmatic beliefs. This resistance is not c onfined to the medical profession: countless specialists in other lines, includi ng business, know very little outside of their chosen fields, and their minds ar e closed to any idea beyond their limited imaginations. Frequently, I have offer edCopyright to lend books 2010 The to Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 29 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONvarious these CAMBRIDGE specialists PUBLISHING only GROUPto be told, after informing them of the contents, This thatis they thewere paradox: not interested. 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ught power and make no endeavor to learn more about it yet every one of them has unconsciously made use of it! Again, many people will believe only what they li ke to believe or what fits into their own scheme of things, summarily rejecting anything to the contrary. Countless men whose ideas developed the very civilizat ion we live in have been hooted at, slandered, even crucified by the ignoramuses of their times. I think of the words of Marie Corelli, the English novelist who The became very world ideafamous that any in one the creature 19th century: (human) should be fortunate enough to secure some particular advantage which others, through their own indolence or indiffere nce, have missed is sufficient to excite the envy of the weak or the anger of th e ignorant . . . It is impossible that an outsider should enter into a clear und erstanding of the mystical spiritual-nature world around him, and it follows tha t Copyright the teachings 2010and Thetenets Princeton of that Licensing spiritual-nature Group Published worldby must Princeton be moreCambridge or Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 30 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON less a closed CAMBRIDGE book PUBLISHING to such aGROUP one a book, moreover, which he seldom cares or dare s to try and open. For this reason, the sages concealed much of their profound k nowledge from the multitude, because they rightly recognized the limitations of narrow minds and prejudiced opinions . . . What the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy Great investigators and thinkers of the world, including many famous scientists, .1 are in the open today, freely discussing the subject and giving the results of their experiments. Shortly before his death, Charles P. Steinmetz, famous engine er of the General Electric Company, declared, The most important advance in the n ext fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual dealing with the spirit th ought. Dr. Robert Gault, while professor of Psychology at Northwestern University , was credited with the statement: We are at the threshold of our knowledge of th e latent Much has been psychic written powers and ofsaid man. about mystical powers, unknown forces, the occult , Copyright 1 metaphysics From The Life 2010 (beyond Everlasting The Princeton science), by Licensing Marie mental Corelli. physics, Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All 31 www.successmanual.com Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE psychology (the science PUBLISHING of mind), GROUP black and white magic, and many kindred subjec ts, causing most people to believe that they are in the field of the supernatura l. Perhaps they are for some. But to me, the only inexplicable thing about these During powersthe is years that belief that Imakes have appeared them work. before luncheon clubs, business concerns, and sales organizations, as well as talking over the radio to thousands of peopl e about As I said this before, science, manyIhave haveused seenit results in their that business can be to termed double, phenomenal. treble, even qu adruple their incomes. My files are filled with letters from people in all walks of life, testifying what they have accomplished by using the science. As an ins tance, I think of Ashley C. Dixon, whose name was once known to thousands of rad io listeners in the Pacific Northwest. A number of years ago, he wrote me volunt arily to say that he had studied this subject in an academic way, but had never fully believed it until he was forty-three, when he had only $65 to his name, no employment, and no jobs available. He set out to prove to himself that the scie nce Copyright would work. 2010IThe quote Princeton the following Licensing excerpts Group Published from Mr. Dixons by Princeton letter: Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 32 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON came Along CAMBRIDGE your book PUBLISHING T.N.T.GROUP It put forth in workable form all that I had known be fore. It was like seeing Niagara Falls for the first time. One knew there was su ch a place; but confirmation was the actual personal contact with it. And so, T. N.T. gave me in print the facts I had known and used, but in a clear form. Here was something I could read and use day by day, holding the thoughts till they we re fully What hasdemonstrated. all this been worth to me in dollars and cents? That, of course, is the question of the average man. He wants to see something . . . in the profit colum n; something material in the way of dollars and cents. Heres the answer. I have m ade a hundred thousand dollars, most of it in paid-up insurance and annuities. I have sold my business which costs me $5,000 (originally borrowed) for $30,000, and am now working on a contract to run for the next ten years which will net me $50,000 if I loaf; and more if I care to work. This is not a boast. It is a fac tual statement of what has actually happened in the past ten years . . . It cann otCopyright be done in 2010 a moment, The Princeton or a day Licensing or a month, Group but Published it can be bydone. Princeton Cambridge Pu

33 Rights blishing All www.successmanual.com Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON In 1934, CAMBRIDGE during the PUBLISHING lowest point GROUPof the Depression, the head of the Better Busin ess Bureau in a large Pacific Coast city heard of what was happening to firms an d individuals who were following my teachings. He decided to investigate my work . Later My statement he congratulated that the teachings me publicly have anddone subsequently more to stimulate wrote me business as follows: here during the past year than any other single factor or agency is based upon statements by numerous executives who have been using the theme successfully in their busines ses . . . When I first heard of the phenomenal results you were obtaining, I was inclined to question the facts. They seemed too preposterous to be true. But up on investigation, talking with heads of firms using the theme and with salesmen who have doubled and trebled their incomes, as well as hearing many of your lect ures and getting into the subject for myself, the terrific and dynamic force emb raced by it all becomes apparent. It isnt going to be understood by everyone in a minute, but firms and individuals that accept what you have to give and follow through can expect some startling and extraordinary results. You have fully demo nstrated Copyright that, 2010 and The therefore Princeton are Licensing to be congratulated. Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 34 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON This man CAMBRIDGE has since PUBLISHING risen to great GROUP heights in the business world and has written me of having seen other practical demonstrations of the workings of this science . When I started this book, I decided to check with some of the individuals and fi rms who had written me to certify the phenomenal results they had achieved by us ing this science. Without exception, every one testified to the continuing progr ess he had made. One of the most outstanding accounts was related by Mr. Don Qua yle, once well-known to the Disabled American War Veterans, who was long active in veterans It was no easy affairs matter, in at thefirst, Northwest. to completely In 1937, accept he wrote your me:ideas. But my circumst ances and physical condition forced me to keep at it continuously until understa nding came . . . You see, in February, 1924, I was stricken with partial paralys is of my lower limbs. I needed crutches to even get about at all, and at best, f or only short distances, and at a snails pace. For a bank executive who had been active in the business world this forced inactivity was not easy to get used to. It was bearable only because I received government compensation my disability b eing Copyright considered 2010due Theto Princeton service Licensing during Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 35 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the World CAMBRIDGE War. However, PUBLISHING in 1933, GROUPthe Government dropped me from the compensation rolls, and I was forced to make a living. My home and other properties were abo ut to be repossessed. Necessity forced me to Itput wasinto not practice a pleasant the picture, principles nor you a hopeful explained future. so well. St icking to it proves them. Possibly I was favored because I couldnt quit the insur ance and public accounting business due to my inability to enter any other kind of work. But persistence gives confidence, and continued right mental attitude f ollowed by consistent action will bring success. I havent reached the degree of s uccess I desire, but that does not bother me at all, for now I am making a good living, have saved my properties, and know the formula that leads to the fullest success. When you have that knowing inside you, fear vanishes, as do the obstru ctions I firstto met a Mr. continued Quaylelife justof after all he good. had started his business with one desk in t he front of a plumbing shop. In the following years, it was a pleasure to see hi m Copyright move from 2010 placeThe to Princeton place, hisLicensing business Group growing Published by leapsby Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 36 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and bounds, CAMBRIDGE untilPUBLISHING he occupied GROUP the entire ground floor of a building on one of th e main thoroughfares of a great western city. Realizing that his story of achiev ement By all was means, a remarkable do so, he one, replied, I askedif permission you think toit quote willhis help earlier others. letter. You might add th at I now have the whole quarters at 20th and Sandy and I employ twenty-two peopl e. I have just brought the business lot between 28th and 29th on Sandy where I s hall build my own office building. I sincerely wish that all people would accept At your theteachings. time I grasped this science, I had no idea that I was later to put it int o book form. My primary thought was to use it to save my own organization from b ankruptcy. I was then vice-president of an investment banking firm, and we had b

een I dont caught know inwhether the economic I was inspired, crisis andbut were I dictated headed for the disaster. first draft of my brochure in its entirety in less than five hours, without notes or references of any kin d before me. At the same time the idea for the brochure came to me, the words, co smic Copyright consciousness, 2010 The Princeton floated before Licensing my mind. Group They Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 37 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON meant But after nothing CAMBRIDGE T.N.T then. PUBLISHING It Rocks the GROUP Earth was published, it reached a woman author livi ng in New York, Seriously, Ivewho been wrote eating me and as follows: sleeping [your] philosophy for the last ten years. It brought me to New York on no carfare; it sold my stuff to publishers when I h ad a lousy little job earning $30 a week . . . It took me to Europe a couple of times, In the same and bought letter, meshe silver urged foxes. me to read Dr. Richard Maurice Buckes Cosmic Consci ousness, declaring that it contained brilliant accounts of the actual experience of illumination. When I did, I was astounded to discover that my experience act ually paralleled the illuminations listed and explained by Dr. Bucke. In the ori ginal draft of my brochure, I had described in detail my experience with brillian t white light. But subsequently, when I showed the manuscript to a close friend, he urged me to tone down the wording: People wont know what you are talking about in referring to that white light some may think youve gone off the deep end. Consequ ently, I changed it. But those of you that know something about cosmic illuminati on Copyright and have2010 readThe my Princeton earlier small Licensing book will Group catch Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 38 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON my reference CAMBRIDGE to the PUBLISHING light.GROUP However, the memory of that singular experience will al ways remain with me: in those few seconds, I received more knowledge and underst anding In the same than period, I had ever it came received to me inin years a flash of reading why my firm and studying. was going on the rocks not because of the threatening outside happenings and events, but because of the mental attitude of our employees. We were all succumbing to mass fear-thoughts: we feared that the Depression was weakening our spirit and sweeping everything downhill to financial disaster. With our own thoughts of ruin, we were attractin g the It occurred disaster to me to that ourselves. to save the firm and to begin fighting the Depression its elf, all I needed to do was reverse the thinking of every person connected with our organization. I set about doing that very thing. As Frank W. Camp, who wrote the introduction to my brochure declared, it was followed by the most remarkable Itransformation admit that2010 Copyright some of The of individuals my statements Princeton and may Licensing organization beGroup ridiculed Published as well. by classroom by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 39 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE psychologists. But PUBLISHING every day, GROUP thousands of people demonstrate for themselves tha t the science works. As for you, the reader, the main point to consider is wheth ergive I it will you this work science, for you. in Thethe only confident way you knowledge can find out that isno tomatter try ithow yourself. you use i t, you will get results. But I do wish to repeat a warning given in my brochure: Never use it for harmful or evil purposes. Since the beginning, there have been two great subtle forces in the world good and evil. Both are terrifically power ful in their respective scopes and cycles. The basic principle operating both is mind power massed mind power. Sometimes evil appears to have the upper hand, an d at other times good is at the controls. It is mind power that has built empire s, and we have seen how it can be used to destroy them history has recorded the If you read this book reflectively, you will understand how the science can be u facts. sed with terribly destructive force, as well as for good and constructive result s. It is like many natural forces, such as water and fire, which are among mens g reatest benefactors. Yet both can be hideously catastrophic, depending upon whet her Copyright they are2010 usedThe forPrinceton constructive Licensing or Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 40 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE destructive Therefore, take purposes. great PUBLISHING care that GROUP you do not misuse the science of Mind Stuff. I can not emphasize this too strongly, for if you employ it for harmful or evil purpos es, it will boomerang and destroy you just as it has others down through the cen turies. Copyright These 2010 areThe notPrinceton idle words, Licensing but solemn Group words Published of warning. by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 41 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CHAPTER IN ORDER CAMBRIDGE 2to MIND-STUFF get aPUBLISHING clearer EXPERIMENTS understanding GROUP of our subject, you should give some tho

ught to thought itself and to its phenomena. No one knows what thought really is , other than some sort of mental action. But like the unknown element of electri city, we see its manifestations everywhere. We see it in the actions and express ions of a child, in an aged person, in animals, and to varying degrees in every living thing. The more we contemplate and study thought, the more we realize wha t a terrific Glance aroundforce as you itread is and this. howIf unlimited you are in itsapowers furnished are.room, your eyes tell y ouCopyright that you 2010 are looking The Princeton at a number Licensing of inanimate Group Published objects.by That Princeton is Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 42 Rights Group Reserved. 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Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that the ancestor of every action is thought; when you understand that, you begin to comprehend that our world is gov erned by thought, and that everything external had its counterpart originally wi thin the mind. It is just as Buddha said many centuries ago: All that we are is t he result Your very life of what is your we have thinking thought. and the result of your thinking processes. Your flesh, Copyright bones, 2010 andThe muscles Princeton can be Licensing reduced Group to 70 Published percent by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 43 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONand water CAMBRIDGE a few chemicals PUBLISHING ofGROUP small value, but it is your mind and what you think that makes you what you are. The secret of success lies not outside, but within Figuratively, the thoughts thought of man. makes giants out of pigmies, and often turns giants into p igmies. History is filled with accounts of how thought made weak men strong and strong You do not men eat, weak,wear and clothes, you see evidence run for a ofbus, its drive working your around car,you turn constantly. on the televis ion, or read a newspaper you dont even raise your arm without a preceding thought -impulse. While you may consider the motions you make as more or less automatic, perhaps caused by some physical reflexes, behind every single step you take in life, regardless of its direction, is that formidable and powerful force thought . The very way you walk, the way you carry yourself, your talk, your manner of dre ss, all reflect your way of thinking. A slovenly carriage is an indication of sl ovenly thinking, whereas an alert, upright carriage is the outward sign of inwar d strength and confidence. What you exhibit outwardly, you are inwardly. You are the Copyright product2010 of your The Princeton own thoughts. Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 44 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON What Thought you CAMBRIDGE is believe the original PUBLISHING yourself source toGROUP be, ofyou allare. wealth, all success, all material gain, al l great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. Without it there wou ld be no medicine, no great museums, no great plays or novels, no modern conveni encesthoughts Your in fact, those therethat would predominate be no advance determine over life your in character, the most primitive your career, ages.inde ed, your everyday life. Thus it becomes easy to understand what is meant by the statement that A mans thoughts make or break him. And when you realize that there c an be no action or reaction, either good or bad, without the generating force of thought initiating it, then the Biblical saying, For whatsoever a man soweth, th at shall he also reap, and Shakespeares words, There is nothing either good or bad, Sir butArthur thinking Eddington, makes itthe so, famous become English more intelligible. physicist, said that to an altogether u nsuspected extent, the universe in which we live is a creation of our minds; whi le Sir James Jeans, who was equally famous in the same field, suggested that the universe Copyright was 2010 merely The Princeton a creationLicensing that resulted Groupfrom Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 45 Rights Group Reserved. 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Almost since firming the fundamental the beginning principle of the human of this race, book. men have been molded by those who knew something of thoughts great power. All the great religious leaders, kings, w arriors, and statesmen understood this science and have known that people act as they think and also react to the thought of others, especially when it is stron ger and more convincing than their own. Accordingly, men of powerful dynamic tho ught have always swayed people by appealing to their minds whether sometimes to lead them into freedom or into slavery. There never was a period in history when we had more reason to study our own thoughts, understand them, and learn how to use them to improve our lives by drawing upon the great source of power within each Undoubtedly, Copyright of us. 2010 we become The Princeton what we Licensing envisage. Group There Published was a timeby when Princeton I Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 46 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONhave would CAMBRIDGE laughed PUBLISHING at peopleGROUP who talked about the magnetic force of thought, how thought correlates with its object, how it can affect people and inanimate thin gs even at great distances. But I no longer laugh, nor do others who know someth ing of its power, for anyone who has any intelligence sooner or later comes to r ealize Russell, George that thought the famous can change fishthe editor surface and poet, of thewas entire onceglobe. quoted as saying that we become what we contemplate; and he certainly demonstrated it in his own life by becoming a great writer, lecturer, painter, and poet. However, it must be kep t in mind that many of the thoughts we think are not ours at all, at least not o f our own originating. We are molded by the thoughts of others; by what we hear in conversation, what we read in newspapers, magazines, and books, what we hear in the movies, on TV, and on the radio; even by chance remarks from bystanders. And these thoughts bombard us constantly. Some of them, which harmonize with our own inmost thoughts and open the way to greater visions in our life, are helpfu l. But too often these thoughts are upsetting, weaken our self-confidence, and t urn us away from our higher purposes. It is these outside thoughts that are the trouble Copyright makers, 2010and Thelater Princeton I shall Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 47 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON explain Few people CAMBRIDGE howgive you much can PUBLISHING keep thought free GROUP to ofthe them. law of cause and effect as it applies to the operation of the mind Much less do they understand the meaning of such axioms a s Everything is within; nothing is without or Mind is the source of power. A superb explanation of this appeared in an article entitled El Dorado, published in the Co mmercial El Dorado, andaFinancial country rich Chronicle beyondback all precedent on December in10, gold 1932: and jewels, lies at every mans door. Your bonanza lies under your feet. Your luck is ready at hand. All is within; nothing is without, though it often appears that men and peoples by dumb luck or avarice or force or overreaching strike upon bonanzas and sail away in fair weather on the sea of prosperity . . . Man individually and collectively is entitled to life in all abundance. It is a most evident fact. Religion and phil osophy assert it; history and science prove it. That they might have life, and th at they might have it more abundantly, is the law. What do you seek? Pay the pric e and take it away. There is no limit to the supply, but the more precious the t hing Copyright you seek, 2010 the The higher Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 48 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the price. CAMBRIDGE For everything PUBLISHING weGROUP obtain, we must barter the gold of our own spirits . . . to find the gold of the All Powerful? One secures the gold of the spirit wh Where en he finds himself. When he finds himself, he finds freedom and all riches, ach ievement, and prosperity. High-sounding talk? No, the most palpable evidence of American history and biography, of all history. The concrete proof is apparent e ven in current events if we but open our eyes. Nothing substantial, lasting, pow erful, or moving was ever accomplished, nor ever can be, except by men [who have discovered] in themselves of the gold of the spirit, which commands dominion, p ower, and accomplishment. Men who knew themselves know at once that all material things and ideas have a spiritual counterpart or basis. They see it in money, i n credit. The law of supply and demand is not to an awakened man merely an econo mic principle, but the material manifestation of spiritual law. Such freedom-see king men see the same principle operating in gravitation, in chemical affinities , in macrocosm America has long andbeen in microcosm. the greatest of El Dorados, the stage upon which the most n

 Copyright umerous of self-found 2010 The Princeton men worked Licensing their bonanzas Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 49 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and their CAMBRIDGE miracles PUBLISHING of thought GROUP to the enrichment of themselves and mankind at lar ge. There is no exploitation, only a showering of gifts, easily bought by free s pirits and generously scattered on all hands according to the expressed law of b argain of the Original, Permanent Owner, and First Producer. To the self-found m an of action all the money, credit, and capital goods he can use . . . Mackay, OB rien, Hearst, and Fair, brave young Americans of 1849, found gold in themselves before they struck it rich in California. They had to. If there is gold there, the y told one another, well get our share . . . How great must hove been the spiritual wealth of such a free-found man as James J. Hill, who built the Great Northern Railroad from nowhere to nowhere, in a wilderness where no one lives. His madnes s founded an empire. By spiritual force he turned forests and plains into a thou sand El Dorados, and by the same force commanded all the gold and credit needed for the markets of Amsterdam and London and enabled millions of Americans to dis cover for Thomas A.themselves Edison said great a few bonanzas years before in thehe cold died: Northwest. Ideas come from space. This may seem Copyright astonishing 2010 The and Princeton impossibleLicensing to believe, Group butPublished it is by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 50 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONIdeas true. CAMBRIDGE come from PUBLISHING out ofGROUP space. Surely Edison should have known, for few men ever received or gave forth more ideas . . . Let each man seek the El Dorado wit hin himself. Power is plentiful. The source is inexhaustible. As the Canonical F athers of the church expressed it, that which is received is according to the me asure of the recipient. It is not the power that is lacking, it is the will. Whe n one By a full findsand oneself, powerful theimagination will becomes anything automatically can be brought set toward into Elconcrete Dorado. form. Th e great physician, Paracelsus, said: The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth. Through faith, the imagination is invigorate d and completed, for it really happens that every doubt mars its perfection. Fai th must strengthen the imagination, for faith establishes the will. Faith is pers onal, individual. Salvation, any way you take it, is personal. Faith comes in th e finding of ones self. This self-finding establishes a clear realization of ones identity with the eternal. Strong, self-assertive men built up this El Dorado of America. Man, know thyself, thine own individual self, is everlastingly the supre me Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 51 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE command. Self-knowers PUBLISHING alwaysGROUP dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of The youth words andof are Paracelsus at all times justowners quotedof are all well they worth wishrereading, to enjoy.for once you grasp their meaning and discover how to apply the principle, you will certainly have more light on how to succeed in your undertakings. However, I must point out tha t hard work alone will not bring success. The world is filled with people who ha ve worked hard but have little to show for it. Something more than hard work is necessary: namely, creative thinking and firm belief in your ability to execute your ideas. The successful people in history have succeeded through their thinki ng. Their Another important hands were point: merely Forhelpers success, toit their is essential brains. that your desire be an all -obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be coordinated, and your energy be concen trated and applied without letup. It may be that you want riches or fame or posi tion or knowledge, for each person has their own idea of what success means. But whatever you consider it to be, you can have your objective, provided you are w illing Copyright to make 2010 itThe thePrinceton burning Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 52 Rights Group Reserved. 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your marriage, the desire to win a partner was uppermost in your mind. The thou ght, the belief, was with you every minute of the day, and perhaps in your dream s asthat Now well. you have a clearer picture of the roles that thought and desire play in your daily life, the first thing to determine is precisely what you do want. St arting out with the general idea that you simply want to be a success as most pe ople do is too vague. You must have a pattern clearly drawn in your mind. Ask yo urself. Where are you headed? What is your exact goal? Have you visualized just what you really want? If success is to be measured in terms of wealth, can you f ixCopyright the amount 2010 in The figures? Princeton If inLicensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 53 Rights Group Reserved. 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You must know where you are headed, and keep a fixed goal in view. That, of course, is t he overall picture; it makes no difference whether you want a job or a better on e, a new house, a place in the country, or just a new pair of shoes. You must ha veCopyright Remember, a fixedthere idea 2010is before The a Princeton great youll difference obtain Licensing what between Group you a are Published need after. and by a desire. Princeton YouCambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 54 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON may need CAMBRIDGE a new car PUBLISHING for driving GROUP to work, and you may desire one in order to give pleasure to your family. The one for business you will buy as a matter of necess ity. The one for your family you will plan to get as soon as possible. For this car, you will read brochures and visit a number of dealers, because it is a mode l you have never had before, something that will add to your responsibilities an d compel you to seek new powers of judgment within yourself and new resources ou tside. Desire for something new, something different, that is going to change yo ur life, makes you exert an extra effort. And the power of believing alone sets in motion those inner forces by which you add what I call plus-values to your li So if you ever hope to achieve anything or gain more than you have now, begin wi fe. th desire. It is the prime motivating force in all of us and, without an all-con suming desire, nothing can be achieved or gained. However, as you shall see, the ream I isaware more that to itmetaphysicians than mere desire. claim that thoughts are things. They may be in a general sense; but so far as their effect upon us individually is concerned, the y do not become real to us until we give them life with our own thinking or thro ugh Copyright the workings 2010 The of our Princeton imaginations. Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 55 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON This may CAMBRIDGE appear aPUBLISHING little strange GROUPat first reading, but it will perhaps become cl earer if I site a few examples. For instance, you are advised to wear rubbers wh en you go out in the rain. Weve all heard the remark, If you dont, youll catch your death of cold. That thought has never had the slightest effect upon me. I havent w orn rubbers since I was a small child. I have had my shoes and feet thoroughly w et hundreds of times, often for hours at a time, yet I cannot recall ever having caught cold as a result. Some people have a tremendous fear of drafts, but I ha ve often thought that if they did catch cold by being in a draft, it was because of their fearful thoughts rather than because of the drafts themselves. I sit i n drafts for long periods daily, and at night I sleep in a corner room which has windows on two sides. I raise them in all sorts of weather, so that the wind of ten sweeps across me. Yet Ive never had a cold as a result, because I never give it a thought. 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For centuries, NCETON CAMBRIDGE outstanding PUBLISHINGthinkers GROUP have claimed that man could shape events and control matter through his mind alone, and the more you study this science, the Sir more Arthur you will Conan realize Doyle,the creator amazing of Sherlock powers ofHolmes your own andmind. for many years a member o f the British Society for Psychic Research, declared that in thought alone there was a constructive and destructive power akin to the faith that can move mountai ns. He said that while the results themselves were conclusive, he had no idea wha t power it was that came from a mans mind and that could separate the molecules o f a solid object toward which it was directed. I know that materialists will sco ff at such a statement. But just remember how radio waves pass right through woo d, brick, steel, and other so-called solid objects. If thought waves, or whateve r they are, can be tuned to even higher oscillations, why cant they affect the mo lecules There are ofmany solid professional objects? gamblers who contend that a strong mental influence has much to do with achieving so-called lucky results in such games of chance as card Copyright playing, 2010 dice, The Princeton roulette, Licensing etc. I know Group one Published man by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 57 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON who wasCAMBRIDGE able to step PUBLISHING up to an GROUP old-fashioned cigar store punchboard and with a fe w punches grab off the best prizes. Once I asked him about it, and he said, I nev er go near a punchboard unless I am in the mood for it, and that means that I mu st be in the frame of mind that Im going to win. Ive noticed that if theres the sli ghtest doubt in my mind, I dont win. But I cant recall the time that I didnt get wi nning numbers when the winning idea was firmly fixed in my mind before I started At toDuke play. University, Dr. J. B. Rhine and his associates demonstrated that psychok inesis, the name given to designate the minds power to influence material objects , is much more than idle theory. Dice (yes, the regular old dice used in crap ga mes) were thrown by a mechanical device to eliminate all possibility of personal influence and trickery. Experiments of this type were started in 1934, and ther e were many tests in which millions of throws of the dice were made. The results were such that Dr Rhine declared, There is no better explanation than the subjec ts influenced the fall of the dice without any recognized physical contacts with them. 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Those exp eriments give you some idea of what is meant by Thought creates after its kind, Tho ught correlates with its object, Thought attracts that upon which it is directed, a nd similar statements that metaphysicians have been claiming for years. It was J ob who said, For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me. Our fearful tho ughts are just as creative and magnetic in attracting troubles to us as are the constructive and positive thoughts in attracting welcome results. So no matter w hat the character of your thoughts, they do create after their kind. When this s inks into your consciousness, you get some inkling of the awe- inspiring power w hich is While thoughts yours to douse. create and exercise control far beyond any limits yet known to man, I cling to the theory that they create only according to their pitch, inte nsity, Copyright emotional 2010 The quality, Princeton depthLicensing of feeling, Group or Published vibratory by plane. 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f experiments with high- frequency electricity, the field in which the great ele ctrical genius Nikola Tesla pioneered. And so, whenever I think of thought and i ts radiations or vibrations, I instinctively link them up with electricity and i tsfind I phenomena. that I am In far thisfrom manner being they alone become in holding more understandable this analogy. toNowadays, me. practic ally every hospital is equipped with an EEG, or electro- encephalograph an appar atus that detects and records a patients brain waves. These waves are, in effect, t heCopyright electrical 2010 oscillations The Princeton of the Licensing brainsGroup Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 60 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON two hemispheres. CAMBRIDGE Doctors PUBLISHING useGROUP them to diagnose not only the health of the brain a nd nervous system, but as clues to a patients general mental health, to his or he r dreams and emotional state, and even to the existence of disease elsewhere in the1944, In body.Dr. Harold S. Burr and his coworkers at Yale University, after experime nting for twelve years, reached the conclusion that all living things are surrou nded by an electrical aura of their own making, and that life is connected elect rically to the whole pattern of the universe. For years, mystics, occultists, an d metaphysicians have claimed that each individual possesses such an aura, and t here are countless cases in which these auras have been recorded as actually see n. Then in the late 1960s, Soviet researchers announced the discovery of Kirlian ph otography: a technique for capturing the aura on photographic film. Kirlian photos of a leaf showed it to be a galaxy of bright sparkles which, however, slowly di mmed as the leaf wilted. Kirlian photographs of subjects hands showed bright rays emanating from the fingers which seemed to confirm the metaphysicians age-old be lief that ones hands are a source of healing energy. Critics objected that the Ki rlian Copyright process 2010 wasThe Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 61 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE recording nothingPUBLISHING more than an GROUP electrical coronal discharge, generated by the mi ld electrical field in which the photographs were taken. Yet at the same time, i t was clear that the strength of the Kirlian aura does correlate with the subjects emotional state. A number of psychologists notably Dr. Lee R. Steiner of New Yor k found this correlation so reliable that they used Kirlian photography as an ob jective We can reconcile measure of this their apparent patients paradox progress. if we look at electricity, coronal discha rges, and the Kirlian effect as byproducts of that yet-to-be- identified thought energy, just as tidal waves in the ocean are visible translations of earthquakes that may Hermes Trismegistus have taken and place the hundreds anent Hermetic of milesphilosophers away on the all sea taught floor. the theory of vibration. Pythagoras, the great geometrician and philosopher who lived in the sixth century before Christ, held that everything that exists is a vibration. Th is is the very essence of our scientific electronic theory of today that all mat ter consists of electrons (with a negative charge), neutrons (with a neutral cha rge), Copyright protons 2010 (with TheaPrinceton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 62 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE positive charge),PUBLISHING and other subatomic GROUP particles, each with their own charges, wh ich want For constantly of a better act and term, react I use withthe oneword another. vibration or oscillation: when the vibrati ons of its component molecules are speeded up, the form of a material object oft en changes as when an ice cube melts in a hot skillet and soon evaporates into s team. But the essential differences in matter, and in the so-called elements as we know them, arise mainly from their differing numbers of electrons, neutrons, and protons. By adding and subtracting protons, nuclear scientists can actually change atoms of one element into atoms of another thus verifying the ancient alc hemists claim that lesser elements, such as iron and lead, could be transmuted in to silver and gold. The alchemists also were able to heal all disease by the sam e forces. When you realize that your nervous system is reached only through vibration in o ther words, that our five known senses record vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell by means of vibrations given off by the external things themselves you ge t a better understanding of the nature of vibrations. For example, we hear a lou d Copyright noise. It 2010 comesThe to Princeton us only via Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 63 Rights Group Reserved. 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the sound NCETON CAMBRIDGE vibration PUBLISHING through the GROUP air. We see a green leaf, but it is merely a pat tern of light waves as gathered by the eyes and transmitted to the brain. There are, however, many vibrations pitched at a much greater frequency than our sense s are attuned to, and of which we never have any conscious knowledge. For exampl e, have We thereall is heard a whistle of the pitched powerso ofhigh thethat laying only onaof dog hands, can hear andit. most of us know how soothing hands stroking our temples can lessen the intensity of a headache. Can this be due to some form of energy flowing from our finger ends? The Bible tells of numerous instances where healing was accomplished by the touch of Jesus hand. Does the explanation lie in this little-known field of electricity the science of vibration? And does this electrical atmosphere, which Dr. Burr claims is of o ur own making and which surrounds all living things, enable us to cause certain impulses to pour forth literally from our fingers or from our minds vibratory fo rces that can act upon others and upon so-called material objects? In the winter time, and at high altitudes, you can feel and often see the electric spark that results from walking across the rug and then touching some metallic object. That , Copyright of course,2010 is aThe form Princeton of static Licensing electricity Group generated Published byby Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 64 Rights Group Reserved. 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Known as a biometre, it consisted o f a bell-shaped glass in which was suspended a copper needle fastened to a fine silk thread. Below the needle, but inside the glass, was a circular piece of car dboard Two of these markedinstruments off into degrees. were placed side by side, and the operator held the fin gers of both hands within half an inch of the glass, his mind concentrated on th e Copyright delicately2010 balanced The Princeton needle. By Licensing changingGroup his mental Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 65 Rights Group Reserved. 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Place the cork with its needle, point up, on an inverted water glass, so that there may be free movement of the paper which is to revolv e on the needle point. Then take the piece of paper and place the spot where the creases intersect on the point of the needle, with the four sides of the pyrami d sloping Place the glass, downward. with the cork, needle, and paper on a table or desk in a room f ree from drafts. Keep away from heat registers or windows, thus avoiding possibl e Copyright heat waves2010 or air Thecurrents. PrincetonThen Licensing place Group your hands Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 66 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the around CAMBRIDGE piece of PUBLISHING paper inGROUP a semi-cupped position, keeping the fingers a half inch or so away, so that the paper may revolve freely. Now order it to revolve u pon the needle point. At first it will wobble perhaps revolving slowly at first and in one direction or the other; but if your hands remain steady and you conce ntrate upon a certain direction of movement, the paper will revolve until it tur ns rapidly upon the needle point. If you mentally order a change in direction, t he one-way movement will cease and the paper will start revolving in the opposit e direction. Of course, it is essential that you do not breathe or exhale in the

Many direction explanations of the of paper. what causes the paper to revolve have been offered heat wav es from the hands, a body reflex of some kind, and the like. If the paper revolv ed in only one direction, then one of these explanations could be possible. But when a person, with a little practice and confident and concentrated thinking, c an cause the paper to revolve first in one direction and then in another by reve rsing the polarity of their thinking, it is clear that the principle is the same Another as Copyright thatsimilar which 2010 governs experiment The Princeton experiments usesLicensing a dialette, with the Group biometre. a small Published disc by of Princeton cardboard Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 67 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE bearing the facsimile PUBLISHING of theGROUP face of a clock, with numbers from one to twelve. ( This is better known as the Rosicrucian Dialette and is issued by Amorc, Rosicru cian Brotherhood.) A sharp needle is pushed through its center and on top of the needle is balanced a sliver of thin cardboard in the shape of an arrow. The dis c is placed on top of a glass filled with water in which the lower part of the n eedle is submerged. The operator places their hands around the top of the glass, the disc, and arrow; then orders the arrow to revolve, change its position, or stop at any However, notdesired everyone position can immediately or number. get satisfactory results in these experime nts, because the power of mind, thought concentration, and projective influence vary from individual to individual. If a form of electricity emanates from our h ands or fingers in particular and if waves, either dynamic or magnetic vibration s, are set up by our thinking, we then have an explanation of table-tipping, aut omatic writing, the performances of the planchette or Ouija board, and many othe r Copyright Dr. mediumistic Phillips2010 Thomas, andThe occult research Princeton operations. engineer Licensing for Group the Published Westinghouse by Princeton Electric Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 68 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Company, in 1937,PUBLISHING told the Utah GROUP session of the American Electric Institute, We fe el certain that whatever we do, say, or think is accomplished by some type of ra diation. We think such radiations are electricity. In the near future, we may be able to capture and interpret these radiations of personality and thought throu gh electrical Since some of my impulses. readers may not have a clear understanding of the radiation of thought, I offer a simple explanation. A pebble tossed into a pond immediately s ets up a series of ripples or small waves, which spread out circle-like on the s urface of the water and ultimately reach the shoreline, where they appear to sto p. The larger the pebble, the higher the waves. Two stones of different sizes an d weights, tossed in simultaneously at different places but in close proximity, will each set up a series of waves, converging upon each other. Where the two se ts meet, there appears to be a struggle as to which is to overcome or pass the o ther. As far as our physical vision is concerned, if the waves are of the same s ize, both seem to stop or merge at their meeting-point; but if one is larger tha n the other, it sweeps over the smaller and creates waves in the wake of the sma ller Copyright ripples. 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 69 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONabout Think CAMBRIDGE this in PUBLISHING connection GROUP with your own mental impulses for example, how th oughts of one nature stop or overwhelm others. You can readily appreciate that t he more powerful or concentrated the thought, the quicker its tempo, the greater its vibration, the more it sweeps aside weaker vibrations and the more rapidly it hear We does much its creative about various work. stages of meditation, levels of consciousness, though t concentration, the strength of our faith all of which deals with the intensity or degree of power we send forth. Creative force comes only when a thought is c ompletely rounded-out, when the imagination can visualize the fulfillment of you r ambition and see in your mind a picture of the object you desire a house, a ca r, a television After studying the just so-called as if mystic you already teachings, possessed the various them. mental sciences, and the regular church teachings, I am convinced that they all work in varying degre es, but only to the extent that their followers believe. 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will be answered. Consequently, they are not answered. I am frequently reminded of the story of the old lady, professing a belief in prayer, who planned to go s hopping. The day before, she prayed that the sun would shine on her shopping day . Upon completion of her prayer she glanced out of the window, saw some black cl ouds, In theand late instantly fall of 1944, declared, an article But I by know Thomas its Sugrue going to inrain. the Saturday Review of Literature declared that the mind-cure movement had grown so rapidly that it was now encountered everywhere. He cited several cases in which sufferers had secur ed phenomenal results. One woman, who at sixty-two had been partially crippled, her fingers bent with arthritis, had taken up a system of Yogi breathing and had entirely recovered from her physical ailments. Mr. Sugrue declared that after h er restoration to health, those who saw her judged her to be about forty. Anothe r woman achieved excellent results under an occult system of metaphysics, and gu esses as to her age were fifteen years under her real age. Sugrue told also of a retired missionary who for the past twelve years had experimented with psychic phenomena Copyright and 2010 hadThe obtained Princeton mostLicensing startlingGroup results. Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 71 Rights Group Reserved. 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Some have referred t o it as conscience, the creator of the still, small voice within. Others have call ed this division of our mental existence the soul, and some metaphysical teacher s claim that it is located in the solar plexus. Others call it the super- ego, t he inner power, the super-consciousness, the unconscious, the subconscious, and various other names. Still others have asserted that it is a part of the Supreme Intelligence to which we are all linked. Hence the name Universal Mind that whi chCopyright embraces 2010 everyThe living Princeton thing,Licensing all humanGroup Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 72 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON as No wellCAMBRIDGE matter aswhat plant weand PUBLISHING call animal it I GROUP life. prefer the term subconscious it is recognized as the essence of life, and the limits of its power are unknown. It never sleeps. It c omes to our support in times of great trouble, it warns us of impending danger, it often aids us to do what seems impossible. It guides us in many ways and when Objectively, properly employed, it doesperforms as it isso-called told that miracles. is, when it is commanded or besought by the conscious mind; subjectively, it acts primarily upon its own initiative, alt hough there are times when its activity appears to be the result of influences f rom Arthur Sir the outside. Eddington is quoted as saying, I believe that the mind has the power t o affect groups of atoms and even tamper with the odds of atomic behavior, and t hat even the course of the world is not predetermined by physical laws but may b e Copyright When altered this idea by2010 the isThe uncaused fully Princeton comprehended, volition Licensing of it human becomes Group beings. Published breathtaking. by Princeton It is Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 73 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON more Every understandable student CAMBRIDGE of the PUBLISHING in subject the light GROUP knows ofwhat the may electronic be accomplished or vibratory by getting theory.into dire ct contact with the subconscious mind thousands have employed it to achieve weal th, power, and fame in this world, as well as to cure physical ailments and solv e countless human problems. And its power is there for you to use. The only step s you have to take are to believe in its power and use the technique set forth i n this book or else devise a system of your own that will put it to work for you . Dana Sleeths syndicated column covering the observations of a hillbilly was well known to newspaper readers in the 1920s. He once told me that he considered the subconscious mind one of his greatest aids, not only in furnishing him with idea s but in helping him find lost tools and other articles. Mr. Sleeth at the time was living in the hills, remote from cities and towns, alternating as a columnis

t and farmer. He had made an extensive study of the subject, and we often discus sed it Its a wonderful in lettersthing covering the our subconscious ideas. mind, [said Mr. Sleeth], and for the life ofCopyright me I cant 2010 seeThe whyPrinceton more people Licensing dont learn Groupabout Published it and byits Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 74 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON use. I dont CAMBRIDGE knowPUBLISHING how many thousands GROUP of times it has helped me with my problems. I deas for feature stories have often come to me when I was engaged in such lowly tasks You know as nothing stump grubbing. is ever lost And as its for locating just misplaced. lost tools Its right its athere knockout. to be found in t he exact place where you left it or dropped it. I have found dozens of misplaced tools in the identical spot where my subconscious mind told me to look. Say, fo r example, it was a pocket knife mines a good-sized one that I had misplaced or d ropped. I would say, Pocketknife, where are you? Then I would close my eyes for a moment, or I might gaze off into space the answer might not always come immediat ely, but when it did, it would come in a flash, and I would be led right to the spot where lay the knife. It always seemed to work unfailingly even to such thin gs as axes, rakes, and other tools that I was constantly leaving around somewher e used I youto know have weanewspaper great deal people of difficulty are not very in remembering methodical.names, but I have found that Copyright if I could 2010 The visualize Princeton the Licensing man or woman Group whose Published name I by hadPrinceton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 75 Rights Group Reserved. 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There is an old saying that once we start weaving, When the you Godsstart will to furnish operate thewith skein, theand aidhow of this true power, that is! the bricks automatically f all into place as though a magical hand had touched them. Results will certainly follow in a most astounding manner. Ideas for accomplishment will pop here and they Copyright will pop 2010 there. The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 76 Rights Group Reserved. 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I believe that day will come when science will prove that the great power of the subconscious is one of the most formidable for ces A passing, in shaping momentary and controlling thought-flicker our lives. dies almost in birth, although it may later reveal cumulative power. But the force that brings into play the great system o f the subconscious is a sustained thought or, as I mentioned before, a fixed men tal picture. In order to bring subconscious forces into action, there are many m ethods for stepping up the tempo of the vibrations of conscious thought although some Copyright times,2010 justThe a single Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 77 Rights Group Reserved. 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ay is through making mental pictures. Use your imagination to perfect an image o f the thing or situation as you would like it to exist in physical form. This is However, usually most referred sustained to as and visualization. continuing manifestations come as a result of deep-s eated belief. Through this belief, with its strange power, miracles happen and p eculiar phenomena occur for which there appears to be no known explanation. I re fer Copyright now to unquestioning 2010 The Princeton beliefLicensing a firm Group and Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 78 Rights Group Reserved. 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It is the first condition fo r membership in many religious, fraternal, and political organizations. Leaders everywhere are looking for people who have the kinds of beliefs they will fight for, because the people charged with the vibrations of strong beliefs sometimes do the miraculous, things others often say are unbelievable. That kind of belief has the magic touch. Indeed, it is the basic principle in both white and black Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu magic. blishing All www.successmanual.com 79 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CHAPTER WHAT THERE THE CAMBRIDGE IS 3SUBCONSCIOUS no artist, PUBLISHING man REALLY of science, GROUP IS or writer of any distinction, however little disposed to self-analysis, is not aware by personal experience of the unequalled importance of the subconscious, wrote Gustave Geley, distinguished French psycho logist and author Unconscious to theof Conscious. From the He pointed out that up to the nineteenth century, the psychology of the subconscious was completely ignored, and was considered on ly as the cause of abnormal disease or accident. Geley added that the best resul ts in life were obtained by close harmony and cooperation between the conscious and The Copyright subconscious 2010 The minds. plays Princeton a very important Licensingpart Group inPublished the magicby ofPrinceton believing. Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 80 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON It willCAMBRIDGE bring youPUBLISHING a quicker understanding GROUP of this science. You will have a clear and detailed picture of what the subconscious mind is, where it is located, and how it functions both by itself, and in collaboration with the conscious mind S ome of the material in this chapter you will find referred to or repeated in lat er chapters. But remember that repetition is an essential part of the technique of this science. Repetition is equally effective in presenting the knowledge of this science. Furthermore, the faster you get an understanding of it, the quicke r you In giving willyou be this on your picture way to ofgetting the subconscious whatever you mind, desire. I must use scientific terms here and there, since practically all the knowledge of the subconscious has com e from the study and experimentation of some of the worlds greatest psychologists . But even if you find this a little difficult to understand at first, repeated readings will make it all clear, giving you a solid foundation upon which to pro ceed As I told with you the in active the first part of chapter, the science. The Law of Psychic Phenomena by Thomson Jay Hudson first got me thinking about the subconscious mind and its great possibili ties Copyright for helping 2010 The individuals Princeton inLicensing everyday Group life. Published Since thatby Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 81 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONother time, CAMBRIDGE booksPUBLISHING such as The GROUP Sub-Conscious Speaks by Erma Ferrell Grabe and Pau l C. Ferrell, Unconscious byThe Morton Source Prince, of Power M.D., byand Theodore CommonClinton Sense and Foote, Its Cultivation The by Hanb ury Hankin have greatly added to the knowledge of the subject. I intend to give you a picture of the conscious and subconscious minds, as well as definite instr uctions as to how you can bring them under control and direct their energies tow ard fulfilling There is dormant your indesires. each human being a faculty, whether developed or not, which w ill enable that particular individual to succeed if the desire for success is pr esent in his conscious mind, thus wrote the authors of The Sub- Conscious Speaks.

This faculty has always been known and recognized for its strange and unusual pow ers, but not until about a century and a half ago did psychologists who made it the subject of their special investigation and experimentation, call it the subc onscious mind Emerson was certainly aware of the dual character of the human men tal organization when he wrote in his Journals, I find one state of mind does not remember or conceive of another state. Thus I have written within a twelve-mont h Copyright verses [Days] 2010 The which Princeton I do not Licensing rememberGroup the composition Published by orPrinceton correction Cambridge of, Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 82 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and could CAMBRIDGE not write PUBLISHING the likeGROUP today, and have only for proof of their being mine, various external evidences, as the MS. in which I find them, and the circumstan ces that Today theIwords have conscious sent copies and ofsubconscious them to friends, are widely etc., understood. etc. It is recogniz ed that we all have two minds, each one endowed with separate and distinct attri butes and powers, and each one capable, under certain conditions, of independent action. There is no difficulty in comprehending that the conscious mind operate s in the brain, for whenever you do any concentrated thinking, you feel it in yo ur head. Sometimes the thought is so intense and prolonged that your head aches, or your eyes become tired, or your temples throb. Also, you can generally trace the source of the thought. It may be suggested by something you have seen or he ard or read; perhaps it is a new idea for your business or home; maybe it is the continuation of some thought you have been pondering for a long timein short, yo u can connect it with something already related to your consciousness. Sometimes your thought is concerned with trying to solve a difficult problem, and you hav e become so exhausted and discouraged at failing to arrive at a solution that yo u give it up, let the whole thing go, dismiss it from your mind, an action you often t ake Copyright at night2010 whenThe youPrinceton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 83 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONsleep cant CAMBRIDGE because PUBLISHING of the thought GROUP that is pounding and gripping your brain. The m oment you let it go, it begins to sink, as though it were moving downward somewh ere inside of you. The tension in your conscious mind then decreases and you are soon asleep. The next morning when you wake up, your conscious mind begins to t hink again about the problem, when suddenly there appears before your minds eyes a mental picture of the complete solution, with all the necessary directions for When appropriate you released action iton from your your part. conscious mind, where did the thought go? Through what power inside of you was the problem solved? Many writers, orators, artists , musical composers, designers, inventors, and other creative workers have long made use of their subconscious minds, either consciously or unconsciously. Merto n S. Yewdale, well-known book editor, called my attention to a statement by the American One of the novelist most helpful Louis discoveries Bromfield: I made long ago in common with some other wr iters is that there is a part of the mind, which the psychologists call the subco nscious that works while you are sleeping or even while you are relaxing or engag edCopyright in some other 2010 The taskPrinceton far removed Licensing from Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 84 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE writing. I have found PUBLISHING it possible GROUP to train this part of the mind to do a pretty organized job. Very often I have awakened in the morning to find a problem of te chnique, or plot, or character, which had long been troubling me, completely sol ved while I had been sleeping. The judgment of the subconscious mind which represe nts inherited instincts and the accumulation of experience, is virtually infalli ble, and I would always trust its decisions over any judgment arrived at through No a doubt long and youreasonable already have process a mental of conscious picture of thinking. your two minds: the conscious mind in your head, above the line of consciousness; and the subconscious mind in you r body, below the line of consciousness with a means of communication between th Now the conscious mind is the source of thought. Also, it gives us the sense of em. awareness in our normal waking life; the knowledge that we are ourselves here an d now; the recognition and understanding of our environment; the power to rule o ver our mental faculties, to recall the events of our past life, and to comprehe nd our emotions and their significance. More concretely, it enables us to have a rational understanding of the objects and persons about us, of our own successe

 Copyright s or 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 85 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON shortcomings, The chief CAMBRIDGE powers of of PUBLISHING the the validity conscious GROUP of an mind argument, are reason, or the logic, beauty form, of ajudgment, work of art. calcul ation, conscience, and the moral sense. By it we take cognizance of the object w orld, and its means of observation are our five physical senses. Our conscious m ind is the outgrowth of our physical necessities, and likewise our guide in the struggle with our material environment. Its highest function is that of reasonin g, and by all methods inductive and deductive, analytic and synthetic. For examp le, suppose you are undertaking to discover a new theory. You use your conscious mind and employ the inductive method of reasoning. That is, you first collect t he facts and elements presented to your sense perceptions; then you compare them one with another, noting similarities and dissimilarities. Then you select thos e which are alike in qualities, in uses, or in function, after which you proceed to form a generalization or law, that certain things which have such qualities will is This function the scientific in such amethod way. of arriving at knowledge, and it forms the basis o f modern education in schools and colleges. We all use it in some form or other, to help solve our problems, whether personal, social, business, professional, o r Copyright economic. 2010 Many The times Princeton the solution Licensing of our Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 86 Rights Group Reserved. 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It is a re pository of spontaneous impressions of man and nature, and a memory vault in whi ch are kept the records of facts and experiences sent down to it from time to ti me by the conscious mind for safekeeping and future use. Thus the subconscious m ind is not only a mighty storehouse of ever-ready material that can be placed at the disposal of the conscious mind, but also a powerhouse of energy with which the individual can be charged, thus enabling them to recover their strength, cou rage, Copyright and faith 2010in The themselves. Princeton Licensing Such is the Group power Published of your by subconscious Princeton Cambridge mind. Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 87 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON The subconscious CAMBRIDGE mind PUBLISHING is beyond GROUP space and time, and is fundamentally a powerful sending and receiving station with a universal hookup. It can communicate with t he physical, mental, psychic, and according to many investigators spiritual worl ds. In brief, the subconscious embodies the feeling and wisdom of the past, the awareness and knowledge of the present, and the thought and vision of the future . Emerson, though he wrote of instinct, endowed it with so many superior attribute s that he undoubtedly was thinking of the subconscious mind when he wrote, All tr ue wisdom of thought and of action comes of deference to this instinct, patience with its delays. To make a practical use of this instinct in every part of life constitutes true wisdom, and we must form the habit of preferring in all cases its powers The guidance, of the which subconscious is given asare it many: is used. intuition, emotion, certitude, inspirat ion, suggestion, deduction, imagination, organization, and, of course, memory an d dynamic energy. It takes cognizance of its environment by means independent of the physical senses. It perceives by intuition. It operates most successfully a nd performs its highest function when the objective senses are quiescent. But it can function during the waking hours as well as during sleep. As a distinct ent ity, Copyright it possesses 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 88 Rights Group Reserved. 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understanding of the bodily needs, it maintains and preserves (unaided by the c onscious mind) the well-being and indeed the very life of the physical body. Sec ond, as pointed out in the last chapter, in times of great emergency it springs into immediate action (again independently of the conscious mind) and takes supr eme command, acting with incredible certitude, rapidity, accuracy, and understan ding. Third, it is operative in the psychic world. The psychic powers of the sub conscious are manifested in such phenomena as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psych okinesis. But, also, it can be summoned to help the conscious mind in time of gr eat personal necessity, when the conscious calls upon the subconscious to use it s powers and resources to solve a vital problem or bring to pass whatever the in dividual seeks or desires. In this book we are concerned particularly with the t echnique Accordingly, Copyright by 2010 which to draw The thePrinceton upon subconscious the resources Licensing mind and operates Group powers Published for ofyour theby benefit. Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 89 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE subconscious and awaken PUBLISHING it into GROUP action, you must first be sure you are asking fo r something that is rightfully yours to have and within your ability to handle, for the subconscious manifests itself only according to a persons capabilities. N ext, in conveying your need to the subconscious, it must be in images of the wor k having already been done. Thus, while it is necessary for you to feel and thin k yourself successful, it is important to go one step further and actually see y ourself as already successful, either in the performance of some selected task o r as actually occupying the position to which you aspire. For the next and final step, you must wait patiently while the subconscious assimilates the elements o f your problem and then goes about its own way to work it out for you. You must have patience and absolute faith, for, as Theodore Simon Jouffroy, the French ph ilosopher, said, The subconscious mind will not take the trouble to work for thos e who In duedo course, not believe with the in flowing it. of the ideas and plans of the subconscious into your waiting conscious mind, the solution of your problem will be revealed to yo u and the correct course of action indicated. You must receive the message from the subconscious freely, and after understanding it you must act at once, immedi ately Copyright and unquestioningly. 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 90 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONmust There CAMBRIDGE be no hesitation PUBLISHING on GROUP your part, no mental reservation, no deliberation . Only by a prompt and automatic response will you make your subconscious contin ue to respond However, your problem whenevermay yoube call oneupon thatit. cannot be solved in this manner Instead of receiving the solution in the form of a blueprint to guide your steps to the fina l fulfillment, at intervals you may feel some mysterious force urging you to do certain things that seem to have no special significance or logical connection. Nevertheless, you must continue to believe in the power and wisdom of the subcon scious. Obediently perform the seemingly irrelevant things, and one day you will find yourself in the position you sought, doing the work you envisioned for you rself. Then, when you look back, you will see how the things you were called upo n to do, through the aid of the subconscious, all formed a logical line of event s, the last one of which was your final arriving the reward of your sincerest ho pes Copyright and desires, 2010 The yourPrinceton own triumphant Licensing personal Groupsuccess! Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 91 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CHAPTER HOW MANY CAMBRIDGE 4times SUGGESTION have PUBLISHING you IS heard POWER GROUP it said, Just believe you can do it and you can? Wha tever the task, if begun with the belief that you can do it, it will be done per fectly. Often belief empowers a person to do what others consider impossible. Th e act of believing is the starting force, the generating power that leads to acc Come on, fellows, we can beat them, shouts someone in command, whether in a footba omplishment. ll game, on the battlefield, or in the strife of the business world. That sudden voicing of belief, challenging and electrifying, reverses the tide and Success! From defeat to victory and all because some mighty believer knew that it could beCopyright done. 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 92 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON You mayCAMBRIDGE be shipwrecked PUBLISHING and tossed GROUP into the water near a rocky shore. 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, you may fear that there isnt a chance for you. Suddenly a feeling comes that yo u will be saved or that you can save yourself. The moment you have that feeling, it begins to take the form of belief. And along with the belief comes the power You to may assist be in you. a fire, surrounded by flames and enveloped in smoke, and frantic w ith fear. This same power asserts itself and you may be saved. Emerson explains it by saying that in a difficult situation or a sudden emergency, our spontaneou s action is always the best. Many stories have been told of the great reserves o f the subconscious mind, how under its direction (and by imparting its superhuma n strength), frail men and women have been able to perform feats far beyond thei r normal powers. Speakers, stand-up comedians, and writers are often amazed at t he subconscious minds power to furnish them with a steady flow of thoughts that t heir audiences After studying the enjoy. various mystical religions and different teachings and system s of mind-stuff, Im impressed that they all have the same basic modus operandi. T hat Copyright is, they2010 achieve The Princeton success through Licensing repetition Group Published the by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 93 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE repeating of certain PUBLISHING mantras, GROUP words, or formulas. William Seabrook declared that witch doctors, Voodoo high priests, hexers, and many other followers of strange c ults use just plain mumbo jumbo to invoke the spirits or work black magic. One f inds the same principle at work in the chants, incantations, litanies, daily les sons (to be repeated at frequently as possible during the week), and the frequen t praying of the Buddhists and Moslems alike. Or consider the affirmations of th e Theosophists and the followers of Unity, the Absolute, Truth, New Thought, Div ine Science. In fact, it is basic in all religions, although here it is white ma gic instead of black. When you seek further, you find the same principle at work in the beating of tom-toms or kettledrums by primitive peoples in all parts of the globe. The sound vibrations arouse similar vibrations in the psychic nature of these so-called primitives, so that they become stimulated, excited, and emotio nalized to the point where they can defy death. The war dances of the American I ndians, with their repeated rhythmic physical movements; the tribal ceremonies t o bring rain; the dancing of the whirling dervishes even the playing of martial music at critical times, and the soothing background music played for the worker s Copyright in industrial 2010plants The Princeton all embody Licensing the same Group principle. Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 94 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON In his book, CAMBRIDGE Penthouse PUBLISHING of the GROUP Gods, published in 1939, Theos Bernard recounts so me interesting facts as to the repetition of certain mystical chants and prayers . When he wrote it, he claimed to be the first white person to enter the mysteri ous Tibetan city of Lhasa, high in the Himalayas, where the monasteries containe d thousands of lamas followers of Buddha. On reading the book, you get the impre ssion that when the lamas, and monks are not eating or attending to the material wants of their bodies, they are constantly and continuously engaged in their my stical chants, using their prayer wheels. Bernard declared that in one temple, t he monks started at daybreak and spent the entire day repeating prayers. The exa ct number of their repetitions was 108,000. He told also of how lamas accompanyi ng all In him religions, repeated certain cults,fixed and orders, chants there in order is an to obvious, give him prescribed additional ritual strength. in w hich the repetition of words (mystical or otherwise) plays an important part. An d this brings us to the law of suggestion. Forces operating within its limits ar e capable of producing phenomenal results. That is, the power of suggestion eith er autosuggestion (your own to yourself) or heterosuggestion (coming to you from outside Copyright sources) 2010 The starts Princeton the Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 95 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE machinery into operation, PUBLISHING causing GROUP the subconscious mind to begin its creative wo rk and right here is where the affirmations and repetitions play their part. Rep etition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. A builder or contractor looks over a set of plans and specifications for a brid ge or a building, and, urged by a desire to get the contract for the work, decla res to himself, I can do that. Yes, I can do that. He may repeat it silently to hi

mself a thousand times without being conscious of doing it. Nevertheless, the su ggestion finds a place in which to take root, he gets the contract, and the stru cture is eventually built. Conversely, he may say that he cant do it and he never Hitler does. used the identical force and the same mechanics in inciting the German pe ople to attack the world. A reading of his Mein Kampf will verify that. Dr. Rene Fauvel, a famous French psychologist, explained it by saying that Hitler had a remarkable understanding of the law of suggestion and its different forms of app lication, and that he mobilized every instrument of propaganda in his mighty cam paign of suggestion with uncanny skill and masterly showmanship. Hitler openly s tated that the psychology of suggestion was a terrible weapon in the hands of an yone Copyright who knew 2010 howThe to Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 96 Rights Group Reserved. 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Every time they moved, turned around, or spoke to one another , they got the idea that they were a superior race, and once that belief took ho ld, they started their campaign of terror. Under the hypnotic influence of this belief, strengthened by repeated suggestion, they started out to prove it. Unfor tunately for them, other nations also had strong national beliefs that eventuall y Copyright Mussolini, became the too, 2010 means used The ofPrinceton the bringing same law defeat Licensing of suggestion to Group the Germans. Published in an attempt by Princeton to give Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 97 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONaCAMBRIDGE Italy place in the PUBLISHING sun. Signs GROUP and slogans such as Believe, Obey, Fight, Italy mus t have its great place in the world, We have some old scores and new scores to set tle, covered the walls of thousands of buildings, and similar ideas were dinned i nto theStalin, Joseph people too, via the used radio the same and every science other to build means Russia of direct into communication. what she is today . In November, 1946, the Institute of Modern Hypnotism, recognizing that Stalin had been using the great power of the repeated suggestion in order to make the R ussian people believe in their strength, named him as one of the ten persons wit h the The Japanese most hypnotic warlordseyes usedin itthe to make world, fanatical and rated fighters him asout a mass of their hypnotist. people. Fr om the very day of their birth, Japanese children were fed the suggestion that t hey were direct descendants of Heaven and destined to rule the world. They praye d it, For forty-four chanted it, years, and ever believed since it; the but Russo-Japanese here again, it war, wasthe used Japanese wrongly. immortaliz edCopyright Naval Warrant 2010 The Officer Princeton Magoshichi Licensing Sugino, Group onePublished of Japans by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 98 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONsuicide early CAMBRIDGE fighters PUBLISHING and greatest GROUP heroes. Thousands of statues were erected to his memory. In repeated song and story, young Nipponese were taught to believe that they could die in no more heroic manner than by following his example Milli ons of them believed it, and during the war thousands of them did die as Kamikaz e pilots. Yet Sugino, who was supposed to have gone to his death while scuttling a ship to bottle up the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, didnt die in battle! He wa s picked up by a Chinese boat. Upon learning that he was being lauded by his peo ple as a great martyr, he decided to remain obscure and became an exile in Manch uria. Although he was alive and well, it continued to be dinned into the ears of young Nipponese that there was no greater heroic act than to die as Sugino had. This terrible, persistent and deeply founded belief, though based entirely on a fable, caused thousands of Japanese to throw away their lives during the war. F inally, Associated Press dispatches from Tokyo in November, 1946, told how he wa s discovered Americans, too, after were many subjected years and to the was power being of returned suggestion home.long before World War I, and got it again in a big way under the direction of General Hugh Johnson wit h Copyright his N.R.A.2010 plan. 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THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON told that CAMBRIDGE GermanyPUBLISHING and Japan had GROUP to be defeated unconditionally. Under the consta nt repetition of the same thought, all individual thinking was paralyzed and the mass mind became grooved to a certain pattern win the war unconditionally. As o ne writer so ably said, In war, the voice of dissension becomes the voice of trea Again we see the terrific force of thought repetition it is our master, and we d son. o as we are ordered. This subtle force of the repeated suggestion overcomes our reason, acting directly on our emotions and our feelings, finally penetrating to the very depths of our subconscious minds. This is the basic principle of all s uccessful advertising the continued and repeated suggestion that first makes you believe, after which you are eager to buy. In recent years we have enjoyed a vi tamin spree. Vitamins, minerals, and various natural and organic foods have come to us from all sides, and millions buy them, so potent is the repeated suggestion o f their For centuries value.tomatoes were looked upon as poisonous. People dared not eat them until some fearless person tried them and lived. Today millions of people eat to matoes, Copyright not 2010 knowing Thethat Princeton they were Licensing considered Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 100 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONfor unfit CAMBRIDGE human consumption. PUBLISHING GROUP Conversely, the lowly spinach nearly went into the garbage pail after the United States Government declared that it did not contain the food values attributed to it for decades. Millions believed this and refuse d to honor Clearly, the Popeyes founders favorite of all great dish any religious longer.movements knew much about the power of the repeated suggestion and gained far-reaching results with it. Religious t eachings have been hammered into us from birth, into our mothers and fathers bef ore us and into their parents and their parents before them. Theres certainly whi te magic Such statements in thatas kind What of we believing. dont know wont hurt us and Ignorance is bliss take on great er significance when you realize that only the things you become conscious of ca n harm or bother you. We have all heard the story of the man who didnt know it co uldnt be done and went ahead and did it. Psychologists tell us that as babies we have only two fears: the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. All of our other fears are passed on to us or develop as a result of our experiences; they come from what we are taught or what we hear and see. 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The Bible tells how he developed spotted and speckled cattle, sheep, and g oats by placing rods from trees, partially stripping them of their bark so they would appear spotted and marked, in the watering troughs where the animals came to drink. As you may have guessed, the flocks conceived before the spotted rods and brought forth cattle, ring-straked, speckled, and spotted, and incidentally, J acob waxed Moses, too,exceedingly was a master rich. at suggestion. For forty years he used it on the Israel ites, and it took them to the promised land of milk and honey. David, following the suggestive forces operating on him, slew the mighty, heavily armed Goliath w ith aof Joan pebble Arc, the fromfrail a slingshot. little Maid of Orleans, heard voices and under their sugg estive Copyright influences 2010 The became Princeton imbuedLicensing with the Group idea that Published she had byaPrinceton mission Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 102 Rights Group Reserved. 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Knute Rockne, the famous coach at Notre Dame, kn ew the value of suggestion and used it repeatedly, but always suited his method

of applying it to the temperament of the individual team. On one Saturday aftern oon, Notre Dame was playing in a particularly grueling game, and at the end of t he first half was trailing badly. The players were in their dressing room nervou sly awaiting Rocknes arrival. Finally the door opened, and Rockne came in slowly. His Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 103 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON eyes swept CAMBRIDGE inquiringly PUBLISHING over the GROUP squad Oh, excuse me, I made a mistake. I thought these were the quarters of the Notre Dame team. The door closed, and Rockne was g Puzzled and then stung with fury, the team went out for the second half and won one. the game. Other writers, too, have explained the psychological methods Rockne used and hav e told how Fielding Yost of Michigan, Dan McGuin of Vanderbilt, Herbert Crisler of Princeton, and dozens of others used the magic of suggestion to arouse their te ams to great emotional heights. Before the Rose Bowl game of 1934, the wise tipste rs rated the Columbia team as underdogs. They hadnt counted on Coach Lou Little a nd his stirring talks to his players day after day. When the whistle blew for th e end of the game, the Columbia men were the top dogs over the superior Stanford t In 1935, Gonzaga University beat powerful Washington State 13 to 6 in one of the eam. biggest upset games ever seen in the West. Gonzaga was a non- conference team, while the Washington State team, because of its great record, was thought to be unbeatable. 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I quote from a newspaper dispatch: Day after day, through the hot, hard grind, [Cochrane] preached the gospel of victory, im pressing on the Tigers the continued thought that the team which wins must go forw You see the same force actively at work in the fluctuations of the stock market. ard. Unfavorable news immediately depresses prices, while favorable news raises them . The intrinsic values of stocks are not changed, but there is an immediate chan ge in the thinking of the market operators, which is reflected at once in the mi nds of the holders. Not what will actually happen, but what security holders bel ieve In Copyright the will Depression happen 2010 The causes years Princeton them andto there Licensing buy may or sell. be Group years Published like them byin Princeton the future Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 105 Rights Group Reserved. 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We hear thousands of stories of bank fa ilures, huge concerns going to the wall, etc., and people readily believe them a nd actwill There accordingly. never be another business depression if people generally realize that their own fearful thoughts literally create hard times. They think hard times, and hard times follow. So it is with wars. When peoples of the world stop thinki ng of depressions and wars, they will become non- existent, for nothing comes in toCopyright Dr. our Walter economic Dill 2010Scott, sphere The Princeton unless we eminent psychologist Licensing first create Group and it Published long withpresident ourby emotional Princeton of thinking. Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 106 Rights Group Reserved. 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Jersey highways were dogged. In fact, for a few hours following the broadcast, t here was genuine panic among millions of listeners who believed our earth was be ing attacked by invaders from Mars. Yes, indeed, belief does cause some strange and unusual Human beingshappenings! are human beings the world over, all subject to the same emotions, the same influences, and the same vibrations. And what is a big business, a vill age, a city, a nation but merely a collection of individual humans controlling a nd operating it with their thinking and believing? As individuals think and beli eve, Copyright so they2010 are.The As Princeton a whole city Licensing of themGroup thinks, Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 107 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON so it is; CAMBRIDGE and as a PUBLISHING nation ofGROUP them think, so it is. This is an inescapable conclu sion. Every person is the creation of themselves, the image of their own thinkin g and believing. As King Solomon put it, For as he thinketh in his heart, so is h Rallies held in schools and colleges just before important athletic contests are e. based on the same principles speeches, songs, and yells become the means of cre ating suggestion and arousing the will to win. Many sales managers employ the sa me principle in their morning sales meetings when frequently music is used to em otionalize the salesmen and to get the idea over to them that they can beat all their previous sales records. The same principle with varying technique is basic in the Army in fact, all armies. The commands and formations constantly repeate d in close-order drill develop in the men instant obedience, which ultimately be comes instinctive. The commands and formations become so fixed in their minds an d bodies that their movements are almost automatic all of which in turn creates that It Copyright isself-confidence very important 2010 The Princeton which to remember is absolutely Licensing that theGroup necessary subconscious Published in active will by Princeton go conflict. into Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 108 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON at action CAMBRIDGE once under PUBLISHING the impetus GROUPof the commands or suggestions it receives from the conscious mind (or which come from outside sources and are transmitted to i t via the conscious mind). But it gets results quicker if the conscious mind acc ompanies its message with a mental picture of the desired goal. It may be faint, sketchy, or even unfinished, but even if only an outline, it will be enough for And thethis subconscious brings usto toact theupon. rituals and ceremonies performed amid dramatic setting s in churches and secret orders, all designed to appeal to the emotions and to c reate a mystical picture in the beholders minds. These rituals, no matter what th e setting, are there to hold your attention and link these symbols hidden meaning s with the particular ideas to be implanted in your mind. Various lighting arran gements, different paraphernalia, often a special garb for those directing the o perations, all to the accompaniment of soft, often religious, music, all help to put you in the proper emotional (and incidentally, receptive) state. The idea i s as old as history. Not only the most civilized peoples but also the most primi tive tribes have their characteristic ceremonials. Similar methods for impressin g the individual are employed at mediumistic stances and crystal- gazing perform ances; Copyright even 2010 the gypsy The Princeton phrenologist Licensing considers Group itPublished a part ofby her Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 109 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE props. Without this PUBLISHING atmosphere, GROUP which tends to make our conscious mind drowsy and even puts it temporarily to sleep, we would not be so easily convinced, for by i tself, the desire to satisfy completely our longings for the mystical and miracu lous is not This often said notwith strong anyenough idea of tobeing permit sacrilegious, conviction. but to present a picture o f the historic method of appealing to the masses. Appeal by drama is the first s tep in arousing peoples emotions, no matter for what purpose. Awakening and stirr ing their Could Aimee emotional Semple McPherson, interest prepares with thethe long way flowing to approach white robe theirand reasoning picturesque minds. a uburn hairdo, have put over her great act of saving souls as well as achieving h ealings, without her superb understanding of the power of the dramatic? Its somet hing to wonder about, because Billy Sunday in his best table-sliding act was a n ovice compared to Aimee when it came to showmanship and plain impressiveness. Sh e with her many artifices and stage settings put on a most solemn performance, a nd her followers on the Pacific Coast at least declare that the results she got were Copyright real and 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 110 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America

THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE lasting. This is no PUBLISHING reflection GROUP on Mrs. McPherson, for her followers were very si ncere and believed in her work, her teachings, and the results and thats all that However, matters.men and women with strong personal magnetism and great orators can get the same emotional effect without props or stage settings to aid them. They are masters of tone effects, emotional appeal, gesticulations, bodily movements, eye magnetism, etc., by which your attention is held and you yourself are thrown wi de open Lets consider to their charms, driving talismans, appeal. amulets, good-luck pieces, four-leaf clovers, ol d horseshoes, rabbits feet, and countless other trinkets which thousands of peopl e believe in. By themselves, they are harmless inanimate objects with no power. But when people breathe life into them by their thinking, they do have power, ev en though the power isnt in them per se. The power comes only with the believing which An outstanding alone makes illustration them effective. of this is found in the story of Alexander the Great and Copyright Napoleon. 2010 InThe Alexanders Princetonday, Licensing an oracle Group proclaimed Publishedthat by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 111 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE whoever unloosened PUBLISHING the Gordian GROUP knot would become ruler of all Asia. Alexander cu t the knot with one stroke of his sword and rose to tremendous heights and power . Napoleon was given a star sapphire when a child, with the prophecy that it wou ld bring him luck and some day make him Emperor. Could anything but the supreme belief in the prophecy have carried this great man to become Emperor of France? Hecracked A and Alexander or broken became mirror supermen isnt going because tothey bring had you supernormal bad luck unless beliefs. you believe in it. But as long as the belief is fertilized, nurtured, and made a part of your inner self, believe it or not, it is going to bring you bad luck because the sub conscious Bird and Tompkins mind always Thebrings Secretto Life reality of Plants what claimed it is led there to believe. are people with certain mind powers which, when directed at plant life such as grain, vegetables, flowe rs, and trees, can make them grow more abundantly. A number of years ago we had an old Swiss gardener who insisted that we replace a number of small trees and s hrubs in our yard. At first I couldnt see the reason for digging up the old ones and Copyright replanting 2010 others, The Princeton but the Licensing old Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 112 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONinsistence mans CAMBRIDGE prevailed. PUBLISHING I GROUP observed that while planting them, just after he got the small trees in the soil and covered the roots, he engaged in some sort of a udible Mumbo Jumbo. He did the same with the shrubs. One day, my curiosity pique d, I asked him what he was mumbling about as he placed the trees and shrubs in t he ground. He looked at me searchingly for a moment, then said, You may not under stand, but Im talking to them, telling them they must live and bloom. Its somethin g I learned as a boy from my teacher in the old country. Anything that grows sho uld have encouragement, and Im giving it to them. Certain humans appear to have a kind of affinity for plants, which the plants seem to feel. Thousands of profess ional gardeners will plant seeds only at certain times of the moon. Superstition , you say? Perhaps it is practical mysticism. The Yale investigators concluded t hat electrical fields play a major part in plant life, and certainly that is a s cientific It is a long observation. way from Switzerland to British Columbia, but in that Canadian prov ince is a tribe of Indians, the members of which always talk to their lines and hooks before actually starting to fish, claiming that if they didnt, the halibut and salmon wouldnt bite. Many are the tales of South Sea Islanders who offer food to Copyright their tools 2010and Theimplements, Princeton Licensing talking to Group themPublished by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 113 Rights Group Reserved. 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Whatto wer I have my question. said about plant and animal life may cause a lot of materialistic pe ople to take violent issue, but it must be remembered that at work in the world are many forces of which we know little or nothing. Consider how many new princi ples were developed in World War II. In the late 1940s, the American Rocket Soci ety made application to the United States Government for land on the moon. Perha ps the application was made in a spirit of facetiousness, but Americans landed o n Copyright the moon 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 114 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC only Without concentration 20 question, years OF BELIEVING later. are human the chief SUCCESS factors MANUAL inSTRATEGIST developingEDITION the subconscious 2010 minds magnetic forces. You have often heard the statement, Hold that pose! That, of course, mean s holding the mental picture or vision. Here again, suggestion repeated suggesti on example, For plays its you part. would like a new home. Your imagination goes to work. At first, you have only a hazy idea of the kind of house you would like. Then, as you dis cuss it with other members of your family or ask questions of builders or look a t illustrations of new houses the mental picture becomes clearer and clearer, un til you After that, can the visualize subconscious your ideal goeshouse to work in to allprovide its particulars. you with that house. It may come into manifestation in any number of ways. But do you really care whether y ou build it with your own hands, or whether it comes to you through purchase, or CLAUDE 115 imagination, from Copyright the BRISTOL actions 2010 visualization, PRINCETON The of Princeton outsiders? CAMBRIDGE andLicensing HowPUBLISHING it comes Group to GROUP Published you is ofby noPrinceton great consequence! 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Youll get it when you give your subconscious mind a mental picture As I write of this, yourself I think holding of the thatmany job.experiences confided to me by those who hav e used this science during the years. I want to give you some of their stories, for in them you may perhaps find clues to an even more effective use of the prin ciples A friend and got the the mechanics idea of building which I am a boat. setting Heforth. knew nothing about boat constructio n, but believed that with some simple instructions, he could build one. So he we ntCopyright ahead. In2010 the The course Princeton of the Licensing work, he found Groupthat Published he by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 116 Rights Group Reserved. 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He saw me floundering around with the heavy ha lf-inch drill I was using and asked me where I got it. I told him I had rented i t and he laughed, saying, Come over to the shop tomorrow and Ill lend you a smalle r one which you can handle much easier. Needless to say, I got it and kept it dur ingsomewhat A all the similar period Iexperience was constructing happened the when boat. I was cutting the ribs. I found that a Copyright small jig 2010 saw wouldnt The Princeton cut through Licensing three-quarter-inch Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 117 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE lumber. Then I caught PUBLISHING myselfGROUP wishing for a band saw that thought led me to a woo dworking shop a few blocks away from my house. I could use the band saw if I pai d the owner fifty cents an hour for its use. However, I found that I was running to and from my home, first to fit the ribs and then to shape them, and losing m uch time in the process. I frequently said to myself during those days that ther e must The following be some Sunday easier another way to get friend the came use of toasee band how saw, theand boat there was getting was. along. W

hen I told him that I had been slowed down without the use of a band saw, he too laughed, saying, I bought one Thursday and wont be using it for some time. Got to get my shop fixed up, and in the meantime, youre welcome to use it. As a matter o f fact, he delivered it to me that same day and I kept it a number of months. I finishedman Another thetold boat! me how he got the use of a thirty-foot extension ladder with wh ich to paint his house. I thought I would undertake the painting in my spare time , he told me, and began looking around to find where I could get the use of a ladd er. I found places where I could rent one, but their fixed time requirements did nt Copyright fit into2010 my plans. The Princeton I dont Licensing know Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 118 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON how many CAMBRIDGE times I said PUBLISHING to myself, GROUPYoure going to find a ladder. And I did. It was Me morial Day, and while in my back yard, I happened to notice that a neighbor acro ss the street was using a long ladder to wash off the walls of his house. I call ed to him, asking where he got the ladder. He told me he had bought it when he p urchased the house. That afternoon it was in my back yard, and I had the loan of Another it for man several toldweeks! me that shortly after Pearl Harbor, he had been looking for a g arbage can of a certain size, but because of wartime priorities, he was unable t o locate what he wanted. He visited second- hand stores, junk shops, bakeries, a nd garages to find the kind of container he wanted, but without success. He was about to give up hope when one morning he noticed workmen making repairs on a co ncrete building across from his home. They were using some waterproofing materia l from exactly the kind of can he had pictured for his own use. He asked the man in charge of the work what would be done with the container when the work was f inished, and was told it would be left on the ground to be hauled away. He then explained his wants, and a couple of days later the container was in his garage the workmen had not only emptied it but had washed and scrubbed it before delive Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu ry! blishing All www.successmanual.com 119 Rights Group Reserved. 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When here twelve did all you years day first telling ago, become when youI aware of fell its of and power it? broke at myleast back.in I was my own in a life. cas t for a long time, and the doctors told me that even if I recovered, I would be crippled the rest of my life. As I lay on my back in the hospital worrying about my future, I frequently thought of the words used by my mother to the effect th at One just has to believe. One day it dawned on me that if I could hold on to the mental Copyright picture 2010IThe wasPrinceton going to Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 120 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON be all right, CAMBRIDGE andPUBLISHING if I believed GROUP in it sufficiently, I could get well. To make a long story short, here I am crawling over and underneath cars, and far from bein g a cripple, Very Well, interesting, Ive used as you it frequently can I urged. see for Tell to yourself. get me more more. business. As a matter of fact, this prese nt location is a result of it. As you know, I was burned out at my old place a f ew weeks ago and space like this in the city is well-nigh impossible to find. Fo r two or three days, I worried about not being able to find another location and deliberated whether I should attempt to go to work for someone else. Then one n ight I made up my mind I would continue in business for myself. That was the tur ning point. Just before I went to sleep I said to myself, Oh, youll find a place w ithin the next few days. This thought power hasnt failed you yet. I went to sleep with full confidence that the place would be forthcoming. The very next day I we nt over to see the painter where I had taken the car I saved from the fire and m entioned I was looking for another place. Thats funny, he commented, You can rent th is space. Ive just bought the building in the next block from an owner who wanted to Copyright retire.2010 And The so now Princeton here I Licensing am, on a main Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 121 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI

I know that NCETON thoroughfare CAMBRIDGE some and readers PUBLISHING with more will business GROUP say that than these I can are possibly merely coincidences, handle! but my fil es are filled with similar coincidences. To some of you they may be just that, but those acquainted with this science know that these things come about as the res ult of intensified thought or mental picture-making. However, we come again to a matter of opinion the difference in conclusions between those who think this is all nonsense and those who know that the things we think materialize after thei r kind. Again we are reminded of what Paracelsus said: Men devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen exter It is pretty well agreed that the subconscious mind works as a result of images nally. thrown upon its screen, but if there is something wrong with your projection app aratus or the original slide, then the projected image is blurred, inverted, or a total blank. Doubts, fears, counter-thoughts, all manage to blur the pictures you consciously Those who have well-developed desire to project. imaginations, such as great artists, writers, and inventors, Copyrightpossess 2010 The the Princeton ability Licensing to visualize Group or Published to make mental by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 122 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE pictures almost at PUBLISHING will. However, GROUP with the mechanics which I will enlarge upon l ater and the explanations already given, anyone following them should have no di fficulty in being able to see in their minds eye the things, objects, or situatio ns that One of the they greatest desire fishermen in reality. I ever knew used this visualizing method. He could sit in a boat with one or two others and pull trout after trout out of the wate r, while his companions using the same kind of bait and with apparently the same mechanical technique dropped their hooks in the same places repeatedly, without Iresults. asked him about it one time, and he laughingly replied: I put the old squeeza-ma -jintum [his word for magic] on them. I figuratively or mentally get down there w here they are, and tell them to hook the bait or fly. In other words, I see them snapping at the hook and believe that it will work. Thats all I can give you in the way This story of was explanation. told to another fisherman not blessed with the first fishermans lu ck, and he scoffed at it. Ridiculous, he declared. Any good fisherman must know the stream, the holes, the habits of fish, the type of bait or flies to use, and hel l Copyright catch them2010 if they The Princeton are there. Licensing However,Group he Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 123 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE couldnt explain how PUBLISHING others skilled GROUP in fishing technique could fish in an identica l spot Ben Hurand Lampman stillwas notassociate catch them editor like of theThe manOregonian, who used the author old of squeeza-ma-jintum. many articles a nd books on fishing and kindred subjects and a recognized naturalist. Upon readi ng this The manstory, who says he that said:it is ridiculous to consider theres some sort of magic or at traction at work makes himself ridiculous by displaying his ignorance. I cant exp lain how your friend is always so fortunate in making his catches beyond saying that there is decidedly something psychic about successful fishing. Anyone who h as studied the habits of fish and tried to catch them, sooner or later realizes that there is more to successful fishing than merely throwing a lure or bait int o a place where the fish are supposed to be. Just what the relationship is betwe en mind and fish--if any--I cannot explain. But having been a student of fish, t heir ways and habits practically all my life, I do know that in successful fishi ng there is an unexplainable element or factor at work call it what you please. Undoubtedly Copyright 2010 in The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 124 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the realm CAMBRIDGE of psychic PUBLISHING phenomena GROUP lies the explanation of the so-called fishermans lu ck I amor not the a fisherman, saueeza-ma-jintum but surely ofif your this successful law of attraction fishermanworks friend. in other ways, there For many is years no reason I was why interested it could in notthe be game used of advantageously golf and wasin a member fishing. of several clubs. I frequently played with a man who had been one of the worlds tennis champ ions in his younger days. He was one of the most amazing short-shot players on t he Pacific Coast. With his mashie or mashie niblick, he could place the ball on any desired spot on the green with a dead stop, as close to or as far from the p in as he desired, and he was usually down in one putt. His putting, too, was an art day One to marvel he amazed at. everyone in our foursome with what could be called phenomenal shots. How did you do it, George? I asked. Well, he replied, youve played handball and squash, and you know what it means to place your shots on the front wall. You i

ntuitively place it high or low or so it will rebound to a side wall or result i n Copyright a kill or 2010 an extremely The Princeton low ball. Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 125 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON I learned CAMBRIDGE placement PUBLISHING years ago GROUP in tennis. You have sort of a mental picture where you want the ball to go or land before you hit it with your racquet. I use the same principle with my short shots and putting. In other words, when I face the green and before I swing my club, I have an instant mental picture of where I wa nt the ball to land, and when I putt, I actually see the ball dropping into the hole. Of course, a proper stance and knowledge of handling the clubs are vital. But most golfers have that and still dont get results. It is true that I spend ma ny hours in practice. So do others; but the main thing is that I just seem to kn ow where the ball is going to land before the club hits it. Theres a confidence o r a belief existing that I can do it, and with a mashie or mashie niblick I caus e a you For backspin who may that raise willyour bring eyebrows the ball atto this, a dead lets stop examine when it the lands. facts given in a ne wspaper story written in the middle thirties by the famous sports writer, Grantl and Rice. Rice declared that the phenomenal amateur golf player, John Montagu, c ould run rings around anyone. The ball always landed where he wanted to place it , whether 300 yards down the fairway or a chip shot to within two or three feet of the cup, and then when he putted, it was like the crack of doom. Rice said th atCopyright the ball 2010 went The where Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 126 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Montagu wanted itPUBLISHING to go. NowGROUP lets read Montagus own explanation as given in the sa me newspaper story. Golf to me is played with the head, mind or brain or whatever you wish to call it. Of course, there are fundamentals of stance, grip, swing; but I must have a clear, clean mental picture of what I am doing before I play t he shot. That mental picture takes charge of the muscular reaction. If there is no mental picture what happens is a mere guess. This means almost endless concen tration of thought if you are under pressure, and there is no thrill in any game Gene unless Sarazen, you are one under of the pressure. greatest golf professionals of all times, used similar methods in his matches. His little book. Golf Tips, has much to say about mental pictures, objectives, concentration, and confidence. All golfers have heard of m ental hazards. In reality, they are bunkers, traps, water hazards, etc. But in th e imaginations of many, they are formidable handicaps that put fear into the hea rtsone On of course the players. where I often played there was a water hole. The distance from the tee to the hole was about one hundred and twenty yards spanning a small pond ap proximately Copyright 2010 fiftyThe feet Princeton wide an Licensing easy shot Group withPublished a by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 127 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON or mashie CAMBRIDGE a mashie PUBLISHING niblick for GROUP the average player. For a long time one member of the club, who had been a great baseball and football player in his younger days , could never get over this water hazard. Invariably he would put ball after bal l into the water with his irons, to the accompaniment of profanity on his part a nd laughter on ours. Finally, as the months went by he took to using his spoon a nd hitting One day I said the to ball him, farI beyond know the water green.fools you, but the next time, just blot o ut of your mind the picture of water between the tee and the green and see inste ad, mentally, an easy short fairway before you. The first time he followed the su ggestion, his ball fell a few inches from the pin. And from that time, on, he la ter told me, as long as he followed the blotting-out technique, he never had any trouble. But when he was unable to concentrate on his own mental picture, due t o the In observing joshingmany frompool other and members billiard of games, his foursome, I am convinced he landed that in certain difficulties. skilled p layers influence the direction and fall of the balls by mind control, although t hey Copyright may be in 2010 complete The Princeton ignorance Licensing of the power Groupthey Published are using. by Princeton If Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 128 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON it The can naturalist CAMBRIDGE work on Roy a golf PUBLISHING Chapman ball,Andrews GROUP it certainly told the canstory work of on a man billiard from San ball. Antonio, Tex as, who with a .22 caliber rifle fired more than 14,500 shots at small blocks of wood tossed into the air without a single miss. Mr. Andrews emphasized his perf ect timing and remarkable accuracy. Nothing was said of the mind-pictures; but i

f you have ever done any prolonged trap or target shooting, you know the part vi sualizing One finds the plays. same sort of magic at work in all fields of sports. Great baseball b atters, expert forward-passers in football, accurate drop-kickers all consciousl y or unconsciously picture connecting with the ball and placing it where they wa nt it to go. Certainly, practice and timing all have their primary importance, b ut this In the mental connection, side must I was never impressed be overlooked. by several statements made by Dr. Marcus Bac h in one of his first books, They Have Found a Faith. Dr. Bach tells of bowling with Father Divine, and of observing from the way Father Divine selected a ball, and from his stance and delivery that he was no bowler. Yet Father Divine made a strike on his first try and it was one of the prettiest strikes Dr. Bach ever saw. Copyright Fathers 2010 nonchalance The Princeton was Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 129 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGEHe characteristic. PUBLISHING rubbed the GROUP soft palms of his hands together as if to say, Well , what Dr. Bach doalso you wrote expectof when an interview the Lord rolls with Rickert one! Fillmore, manager of Unity City and son of one of the founders of the Unity movement. Dr. Bach asked if the wor ks of Unity could be applied to a real estate venture. Mr. Fillmore replied, If i t works Many readers at all, of this it works bookeverywhere. may not be golfers or billiard players, but a simple e xperiment will demonstrate to you this strange power of attraction through visua lizing or making the mental picture actually work. Find a few small stones or pe bbles which you can easily throw and locate a tree or post between 6 and 10 inch es in diameter. Stand away from it twenty-five or thirty feet and start throwing the pebbles in an attempt to hit it. If you have average aim, most of the stone s will go wide of their mark. Now stop and tell yourself that you can hit the ob jective. Get a mental picture of the tree figuratively stepping forward to meet the stone or of the pebble actually colliding with the tree in the spot where yo u want it to strike, and youll soon find yourself making a perfect score. Dont say its impossible. Try it, and youll prove it can be done if only you will believe i t. Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 130 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON In the early CAMBRIDGE daysPUBLISHING of wartimeGROUP gasoline rationing, most people didnt consider getti ng additional coupons a criminal offense. A friend found he didnt have enough gas to take him to his duck lake One Sunday he told me how he had secured enough co upons to make several trips to the shooting grounds. I had just about given up th e idea of duck shooting this fall when the thought occurred to me that I could p ut this Mind Stuff to work and get some more gas. Of course, everyone around the office knew that I wanted to go duck shooting and most of them knew of my probl em. Whether they passed out word to their friends I do not know, but I got more coupons than you could shake a stick at. I had a constant picture of going hunti ng and using my automobile and of someone giving me gasoline coupons. It may be hooey, but I got the coupons. Even a farmer friend gave me gas out of his allotm Now lets take this same science into the kitchen. Did it ever occur to you that t ent. he so-called good cooks use this same science, some consciously and others uncon sciously? Two people can attempt to make the same kind of pie, use identical ing redients and follow instructions to the letter. One will be a failure while the other Copyright will be 2010 theThe last Princeton word in Licensing culinary achievement. Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 131 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON Why? InCAMBRIDGE the firstPUBLISHING case, the one GROUP cook approaches pie-making with trepidation. She knows she has had pie failures in the past and worries how this one is going to come out. She doesnt have a perfect mental picture of an appetite-satisfying gol den brown crust with a wonderful zestful filling. Shes upset and nervous, and wit hout her knowing it, her uneasiness is communicated to her pie-making. The secon d one is aware, she knows that her pie is going to be tops and it is. That prima ry you If mental arepicture a mediocre her chef belief but you makes likeit toso. cook thats a very necessary requisite too sell yourself on the idea that you can prepare superior dishes. You can do i t, for you have the forces inside of you, and they will come to your aid if only you will believe in them and call upon them. So put your heart and soul into th e next pie you make. Envision it as perfect, and you will be surprised when you

The same see the realization law will work of no your matter mental where picture. it is applied, and that goes for everythi ng from fishing to money-making or success in business. Lets take an example out ofCopyright the war. 2010 When The he left Princeton the Philippines, Licensing Group General Published Douglasby Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 132 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE MacArthur declared PUBLISHING I shall return. GROUP With our Pacific Fleet in ruins at Pearl Harbor and with the Japanese in control of most of the South Pacific, MacArthur had no physical evidence that he would ever return. However, it was a statement of con fidence or belief. He must have had a mental picture of his returning, and histo ry relates how he kept his promise. Thousands of similar cases happened during t heCopyright war and are 2010 happening The Princeton today.Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 133 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CHAPTER THE ONCE ART WHEN CAMBRIDGE 5 IMENTAL OF was in PUBLISHING PICTURES the investment GROUP banking business, Bob, a young salesman, came into I wish my you office would fortell advice. me, he inquired, how I can overcome my fear of Mr. Smith. I k now I can sell him if I can just get in to see him and talk with him on his own level. Mr. Smith, As it asstands, Ill call hes him got here, the is life a millionaire scared out of with me a and very every imposing other office salesman. org anization. He is a portly type, with a heavy shock of hair and beetle-browed. Be cause Copyright of his2010 growling The Princeton manner, he Licensing easily scares Group Published timid by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 134 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON folks. I was momentarily CAMBRIDGEIPUBLISHING However, knew he liked puzzled, but GROUP the people answer whosoon talked came. up Bob to him. had been picturing this man as he saw him. You know hes not going to hurt you physically, I said. Suppose y ou saw Mr. Smith at the beach in a bathing suit. You wouldnt be afraid of him the re, would you, Certainly not, even he replied. though heThen did the appear idea toof beaahairy pretty body hairy came fellow? to me, and I asked, B ob, did you ever see one of those clownish dancing bears wearing a fez or a dunc e cap? you Sure, Well, You responded know a have they thecan good salesman. imagination. growl, but Just most picture of them our are friend toothless as one and of cant those bite. harmle ss old bears, Laughing heartily. fez, Bob collar, wentand out. all, A few anddays the later mentalhe hazard sold the is gone, man $20,000 isnt it? worth of securities, and this executive may still be wondering how the young salesman ever Copyright got in 2010 to see The him, Princeton to say Licensing nothing ofGroup selling Published him. by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 135 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON A couple CAMBRIDGE of weeksPUBLISHING later, BobGROUP was back in my office, telling me how he had used s imilar methods in making another sale, this time to a gruff old man who wore whi te whiskers, had a patriarchal and stern appearance, and used a vitriolic tongue That that old was goat feared had byme most buffaloed salesmen. for a long time. I knew he had money, but every ti me I passed his store and saw him scowling he was always scowling I couldnt get u p courage to go in and tackle him. A few days ago I got to thinking of the pictu re-making plan you told me to use on Mr. Smith and the idea popped into my head of a picture of Santa Claus. I said to myself, Sure, the old goat could be Santa Claus, and whos afraid of that kindly old boy? Well, it worked there too. The old man was swell to me sort of flattered that a young fellow like me dared approach him. I got a $5,000 order out of him and he told me to come back next week beca use he wanted to go over his whole security list with me. That means more busine Many men holding executive positions assume an air of importance that causes som ss. e people to hold them in awe. With their elaborate office surroundings and their numerous Copyright secretaries 2010 The Princeton and clerks, Licensing they put Group on aPublished by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 136 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON show that CAMBRIDGE proves impressive PUBLISHING to GROUP some. Just bear in mind that these executives are mere human beings with the same fears, frailties, and faults that are common to millions; at home they are often docile little souls. When you picture them as they really are, rather than as they appear or pretend to be, the mental hazard immediately disappears. The genuinely great man is usually easy to approach and seldom barricades himself from callers. If you are a salesman, this should give you a clue to how to eliminate the mental hazards that crop up when you visit so meone A lawyer whotold putsme onof a an show experience of being that superior. nicely illustrates my point: I once found myself pitted against an attorney who had a great reputation and was generally f eared by younger men. For a little while in the courtroom, I admit I was frighte ned, but I closed my eyes and said to myself, Im just as good as he is; as a matte

r of fact, Im better. I can lick him and I will. I repeated words and phrases like that for several seconds, and when I opened my eyes, I could have licked two li ke him. I now go through the same little ritual whenever I get a tough case or t he jury doesnt look favorable. Maybe its luck, maybe its all illusory, but it alway s Copyright works. 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 137 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON who People CAMBRIDGE act and PUBLISHING appear hard-boiled GROUP are usually softies at heart and once an i nterviewer eliminates the mental hazard, he has licked the situation. Take a cou ple of deep breaths the next time you call on one, convince yourself hell be a pu sh-over, During the and Depression he will. of the 1930s, a group of managers and assistant managers, i ncluding the butchers of a large grocery chain store, came on their own initiati ve to me for help. After a six weeks course, the men decided to put the lectures into effect. It was agreed that each store one day a week would use the science I had expounded to push the sale of certain items. After considerable debate, am ong the items selected for the test were cheese, rolled roasts, salmon, and just plain Hubbard squash, since the manager of a store in one of the outlying distr icts had said he could make a good buy of squash from a farmer. The day before e ach sale, the managers carefully coached their clerks to make a mental picture o f each customer coming into their stores and buying the selected items. Of cours e, prominent displays were made of each item, and each clerk was instructed to t hink Copyright of selling 2010the Thespecial Princeton item Licensing wheneverGroup a customer Published appeared. by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 138 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON The results CAMBRIDGE were astounding. PUBLISHING GROUP The store specializing in cheese sold more cheese i n that one day than had passed over the counter in a six months period; the shop which specialized in the rolled roasts on Saturday had them sold before noon; th e store which had featured fresh salmon on Friday sold more salmon than all the other stores of the group combined. The one where squash had been selected had t o call upon Fifteen years the later, farmer with twice only during one exception the day to (and replenish he was a the war supply. casualty), each m an who took the lecture course was either in business for himself or had a much better job. As a matter of fact, one of the men came to own three stores of his own, I think while of a another recentbecame conversation managerwith of athe chain head ofof stores a large in Pacific a neighboring Coast advertis state. ing agency, who for a number of years handled the sales promotion work for a wel l-known If there coffee was ever manufacturer a man whowho used had this recently stuff to sold tremendous his business. advantage, declared the advertising Copyright 2010 executive, The Princeton it was Licensing that old man. Group HePublished came to this by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 139 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE section as a kid and PUBLISHING learnedGROUP the coffee roasting and blending business. He concl uded that he could do better if he were in business for himself. He thoroughly b elieved that he could blend the best coffee, and even up to the time of his reti rement, after years in the business, he thoroughly believed that his coffee was the I once best gave on a the printer market. a small Of course, manuscript that belief that dealt made with the old theman subject a millionaire. we are now considering; I wanted to get it out in pamphlet form. The next morning he popped into my office, almost out of breath and visibly shaking. Naturally I asked if there were anything wrong. Just had the oddest experience, he spluttered. I took yo ur manuscript home last night and read it, and I said to myself, If the stuff act ually works as the author claims, then I ought to be able to find a parking spac e close to his office when I go to see him. I thought no more about it until I wa s driving from our plant to your office just a few minutes ago, and then the tho ught again occurred to me that it might work. Well, I turned the corner, and the re wasnt a space to be seen on Sixth Avenue, and I was going to dismiss it all as bunk. But as I slowed down to let some pedestrians pass, I saw a car pull away from the curb right in front of this building and there was my place. It gives m e Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 140 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE goose-pimples. Perhaps, I said, Maybe PUBLISHING but its why just GROUP not one tryof itthose again? things. He did, and had similar results over a pe riod of years. Call them coincidences if you like. But this printer never would especially when shortly afterward he was able to more than triple his business w

Now and hile most then printers I toldwere acquaintances having a difficult about thetime printers getting experiences any ordersand at was all.astounde d to learn that others seemed able to find parking space as had this printer. On e woman, a Unity student, told me that she and her sister never drove downtown w ithout saying that they would find a parking space in or near a spot that they d esired A woman, a and dietician they always and instructor found one. in a large hospital, said to me, The working of this power, or whatever it is, often frightens me. As an illustration, this h appens with continued frequency. Every morning on my way to work when I enter th e business section, the traffic lights always turn green and I get through all o f them without a stop. I cannot recall the time that the lights have shown red a gainst Copyright me. 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Obviously she believed in her ability to have t hewoman A signals told the meway of driving she wanted cross-country them. from Washington, D.C., to join her husb and who had been assigned to duty in a Pacific Coast city. I was frightened in th e beginning, she said. I had never driven any such distance alone in my life. One day I got to thinking of my grandmother who had been one of the pioneers to the Pacific Northwest and who had done many things alone. My fear was gone at once. However, the garage man who looked over my car before I started told me not to g o Copyright without 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 142 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE getting new tires; PUBLISHING he said the GROUP old ones would blow out any time. If I hadnt been so intent on making the trip and without delay, I might have listened to him; bu t the thought again came to me that they would last until I got across the count ry and last they did. While I do not use the car much now, the original tires ar e still case Another there, that though reinforces in pretty my contention bad shape. involves But no blowouts an oil refining ever occurred. company and more than a million dollars of investors money. In its early days, the company ex perienced great financial difficulties brought on by suits and marketing problem s. It became necessary to reorganize the whole financial structure, with the sto ckholders taking new securities but forgoing interest for a number of years. The stockholders were told to make a mental picture of the oil turning into money a nd coming from every still and every spigot in short, to visualize the company a s a money- maker. Incidentally, this company was in a field dominated by strongl y entrenched major companies. Nevertheless, not only did the company become a su bstantial money-maker, but it was subsequently sold, and all the security holder s Copyright got back their 2010 The money Princeton with interest Licensing in full. Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 143 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONGribbo, Jimmy CAMBRIDGE once PUBLISHING well-known GROUP to sports fans as a manager of prizefighters, made winners out of many boxers by teaching them how to visualize themselves as winn ers and they became winners. I realize that some readers, especially those who k now nothing about Mind Stuff, will question these stories. But those who related them are of undoubted veracity, and I believe that many of my readers could rel ate much stranger tales from their own experiences. G. N. M. Tyrrell, the well-k nown English investigator and writer, declared that if, while dwelling upon the activity of the subconscious mind, we determine upon an intention to do a certai n thing, we may subconsciously initiate a train of events likely to bring this t hing about. Dr. Shailer Mathews, long associated with the University of Chicago, stated that we influence events by very great desires, and there is psychologica l woman Here A proof arewho on two ourselves ran cases a large inof point: the effects antique shopof was our a recognized desires. authority whose advice con cerning antiques was much sought after by other women. But she happened to disli ke social activities and was constantly bothered by a woman who kept inviting he

 Copyright r to luncheons 2010 and The teas. Princeton This second Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 144 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONmerely woman CAMBRIDGE wanted PUBLISHING to be seen GROUP in the company of this renowned authority who, ho wever, kept declining her. Then a womans club scheduled a well-known lecturer to talk, and under the second womans insistent pleas, the head of the antique shop f inally She caught agreed meto ingo anwith off moment, her. she told me, and no sooner had I agreed than I bega n to regret having made the promise to go. The woman and I had nothing in common . As a matter of fact, she bored me. I hate those would-be highbrow affairs, and I was certain this was going to be one. At night I would actually have cold swe ats thinking about what I had done and how I could get out of going without offe nding the woman who was a fairly good customer of the store, and who, incidental ly, I knew would have a lot of mean things to say about me should I fail to keep I mythought agreement. about it and thought about it, figuring on making up excuse after excus e none of which seemed good enough or plausible. I was nearly beside myself. The day of the meeting was drawing near, and I had about decided to phone her, tell ing her that an important engagement had come up making it impossible to attend the Copyright lecture,2010 whenThe in Princeton she came. Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 145 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON She was CAMBRIDGE all apologies PUBLISHING when she GROUP informed me that the lecture had been canceled. Di d I draw a sigh of relief? I thoroughly believe in what you preach and I think t hat my thought had something to do with what happened. I know that some will say it was a coincidence let them call it that if they please. But stranger things thansecond The that happen, story involves and theyre the manager not all of coincidences. a company manufacturing a hay fever rem edy. He had recently arrived in town, found an apartment near his office, and so ught a telephone for his apartment. At that time, just after the war, the teleph one company had a long waiting list and was installing priority telephones only for two For doctors, months police, he tried fire toofficials, get a telephone, and those seeking engaged outin everyone public he emergency could to work. hel p him. Through a mutual friend, he learned that I knew the manager of the phone company and he came to see me. I quickly disillusioned him of the idea that I co uld persuade the manager to give him a telephone ahead of several thousand other s but I did tell him that he shouldnt have any trouble if he could establish his rights Copyright to a 2010 priority. The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 146 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON I askedCAMBRIDGE him whom he PUBLISHING had talked GROUP with, and he gave me the names of several people in major and minor positions with the company. Then he explained that it was imp erative that he have a telephone, for he was the only one connected with his own Do company you have who many couldlong-distance handle after-officecalls? I hour asked. business. And how much does your company telep hone business amount to a month? He gave me an unusually high figure for his mont hly bills. Take your last few months bills with you and see the man you saw first, look him straight in the eye and tell him that youve just got to have a telephon e without delay, I told him, but dont go near him until you can convince yourself t hat you can convince him. Otherwise, your task is futile. Youve just got to make up your mind that youre going to have a telephone installed in your apartment, an d you try Ill mustit, believe he said, it. then quickly catching himself said, No, Ill do it. Ill get that t He came to see me several days later. It certainly worked. I must tell you about elephone. this, Copyright for its 2010 very Thefunny Princeton how aLicensing positive Group thought Published brings about by Princeton such Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 147 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON a series CAMBRIDGE of happenings. PUBLISHING I went GROUP to see the man I had first talked with, and he wa s rather amazed that I had come back to him. This time I explained in detail why it was imperative that I have a phone and showed him the bills as you suggested . It was only a matter of minutes before I had him convinced. He was just about to call the manager to plead my cause when, lo and behold, the manager called hi m on some other matter. Then this man told my troubles to the manager who agreed I was entitled to a priority. He suggested that I see someone in charge of prio rity I had ratings. never heard of this man and before that time had known nothing of the prior ity system. I told this man my story and a lot about our business, referring to

the antihistamines we manufactured. I nearly collapsed when he told me that he w as bothered by hay fever and had tried various remedies without results. From th en on, it was a natural. It all gives me a sort of spooky feeling. How did it ha ppen that the manager called the man I was talking with at that particular time, and how did it happen that the man with the final say-so was a hay fever victim Of and Copyright course, one I we could 2010 allThe help? know Princeton From our that nowLicensing on, send Group thoughts me thePublished determine scoffers. our carriage, by Princeton our Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 148 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON expression, facial CAMBRIDGE PUBLISHING our conversation, GROUP for what we are outwardly comes as the resu lt of what we think habitually. Many women have improved their appearance by con tinuing to feel the delights of beauty, by thinking thoughts of the beautiful, b y wearing stylish clothes, by adding things of beauty to their surroundings, by developing poise and easy carriage, and by constantly telling themselves that th ey are going to win out. You have seen in movie plays how a badly dressed, ordin ary-looking girl can be transformed into a most attractive woman by beautiful cl othes and the latest hair-do. You can do the same thing and will speed up the pr ocess if you continue to hold the mental picture of your new self and never rela x forpeople Most a second. dread going to a dentist. It isnt so much what happens as what the pa tients think will happen that brings on the jitters. Again we have thoughts crea ting conditions that we would go a long way to avoid. The American Weekly of Jul y 7, 1940 told of a childrens dentist in Pittsburgh who fixed up a playroom adjoi ning his operating room and fitted it up with toys, sandboxes, blocks, etc. The idea was to get the children interested in playing and get their thoughts off th e coming work on their teeth. Once in the chair, the children were encouraged to talk Copyright about 2010 anything The Princeton but their Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 149 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON The teeth. CAMBRIDGE dentist PUBLISHING even attached GROUPa button switch to his electric drill line that the children themselves could turn on and off, and assured them before he start ed work that they could turn off the current at the slightest indication of pain . barber A His practice who has was built enormous. up a large clientele among small children has on his stan ds numerous well-illustrated, childrens books, which he puts in his little patron s hands as he places them in his chair He gets them interested in the pictures be fore he starts cutting their hair. Once in a while it doesnt work, he said, especial ly if the child hasnt been taught to look at pictures. Then I have to bring out t he mechanical toys, such as those that utter throaty sounds or squeaks when they are squeezed. But the trick is to get the kids to forget about their hair being Imagination cut. Once that or mental is done, picture-making I have no trouble. can often produce queer results. Fear is ba sically an imaginary factor, as millions of men who went through the war will te stify. You suddenly receive a telegram, and before you open the envelope, you fe ar youll hear bad news and you promptly get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. Copyright The2010 newsThe mayPrinceton be good, Licensing but for Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 150 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the moment CAMBRIDGE you are PUBLISHING shaken with GROUP fear, and only the good news relieves you of that The nervousness. story is often told of a man who got the only room left in a hotel. It was o rdinarily a storage room, but when the hotel was crowded, it doubled as a bedroo m. During the night, the man complained of lack of air. On arising, he groped th rough the dark to what he thought was the window. He couldnt open it, and, after finding a shoe, knocked out the pane of glass. Then he slept comfortably the res t of the night, only to discover at dawn that the window was still intact. What he had World During smashed War was II, the Margareta glass door West torelated a closet! a somewhat similar story in This Wee k. Returning on a troopship from the South Pacific, she found herself packed int o a cabin with seventeen other women. Because of the black-out rules, the portho les had been closed, and the cabin was stifling. Inasmuch as the ship was not sa iling until morning, permission was granted to open the portholes after everyone was in bed. Miss West tells how she undertook to open the portholes and how eve ryone Copyright was pleased 2010 The that Princeton they could Licensing then sleep. GroupAnd Published sleep they by Princeton all did. 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awakening NCETON CAMBRIDGE in the morning, PUBLISHING they GROUP found that Miss West had opened only the inner po rtholes. The outer ones remained closed, shutting out both light and air during the night. During food rationing, thousands of people ate margarine in the home of friends, thinking it to be butter. During Prohibition days, it was a common practice to pour moonshine whiskey into bottles with apparently genuine labels, and many did not know the difference. Sometimes the lowly carp has been served as red snappe r, countless In without any ways gourmet science being hasthe proved wiser. the effects of the workings of the imaginat ion. Postage stamps have been placed on the skin of patients who believed that t hey were small mustard plasters; blisters developed under the stamps. By ringing a bell when he offered food to dogs, the Russian scientist Pavlov soon had the animals associating the bell with the thought of food, and it was only a short t ime before the mere ringing of the bell caused their stomachs to secrete digesti ve juices. Sit at a restaurant counter and notice an enticing dish placed before The your Copyright peeling neighbor. of onions 2010 At The once Princeton often you causes become Licensing hungryGroup tears to and flow your Published from mouth theby begins person Princeton to doing water. Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 152 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the peeling. CAMBRIDGE Yet the PUBLISHING mere sight GROUP of an onion being peeled by another person sever al feet away and with no odor permeating the air can bring tears to the eyes of others in the room. Some people cannot eat warmed-up leftovers, declaring that t hey make them sick. Undoubtedly, some spoiled leftovers eaten years before did u pset their stomachs, and the mental picture never left them. Others claim that t hey must take soda after every meal to help them digest their food which medical authorities say is often merely the working of their imaginations. A sudden emo tional shock under the pressure of your imagination will cause your skin to turn cold and may even be followed by alternate sweats and chills. When your imagina tion goes to work, something your physician has told you can have a terrifying e I have crossed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans several times and have never been ffect. seasick, even in the most severe storms and violent pitching and rolling of the ship except once; and that was when I had to help another passenger who was vio lently ill. However, early in my traveling, I learned to look away from those wh o were seasick, realizing that a suggestive force could make me run for the rail . Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 153 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON Try sucking CAMBRIDGE a lemon PUBLISHING when a friend GROUP near you is whistling. The mere sight of it wi ll stop him, and all because the thought of the sour lemon puckers up his mouth and makes While lecturing, whistling in order impossible. to prove the power of the imagination, I would often h old up two small atomizers containing different colored fluids. I would tell my audience that one contained lilac perfume and the other attar of roses, explaini ng that my experiment would determine the difference in my listeners perceptive p owers. I would then turn my back on the audience so that they could not see whic h atomizer I was spraying into the air. At the same time, I called upon them to identify the odor. Some would say lilac, others attar of roses. Of course, there was always great chagrin when these two groups discovered that their imaginatio ns had led them astray, and that both atomizers contained nothing but colored od orless In his little water. essay, Concerning Tobacco, Mark Twain (who had the reputation of s moking the worst cigars) says that a man thinks he can tell what he regards as a good cigar from what he regards as a bad one but he cant. He goes by the brand, yet Copyright imagines2010 he goes The Princeton by the flavor. 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Unquestionably, there is a difference in the taste of even domestic cigars and cigarettes, but the im agination When you realize plays an that important inventors, partartists, in determining scientists, it. architects, and builders o f great companies all must employ their imagination, you get some idea of its ma gnitude. Shakespeare said, Assume a virtue if you have it not. Lets follow some of

the implications of this great advice. In assuming a virtue, you are assuming it via your imagination. To become the person you would like to be, you must creat e a mental picture of your newly conceived self, and if you continue to hold it, the day will come when you are that person in reality. So it is with the accomp lishment But Copyright here we of 2010 desires. must makePrinceton The a distinction Licensing between Group daydreaming Publishedand by Princeton a true Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 155 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON picture mental CAMBRIDGE the PUBLISHING proper use GROUP of the imagination. Perhaps some genie will drop $ 100,000 into your lap or provide you with a luxuriously furnished mansion overni ght, but I have Daydreaming or mere never undirected had the pleasure wishful thinking of meeting doesnt one. have the power to release the latent forces within you that will bring you one hundred thousand dollars or When a mansion. you employ your imagination properly, you see yourself doing a thing, and t hen you go ahead and do it. Doing the thing you have pictured to yourself brings it into actual existence. In this connection, think about the use of a magnifyi ng glass. When properly focused, it will gather and concentrate the light from t he sun to burn a hole in the paper upon which the rays are focused. It must he h eld steady before the heat builds up. So it is with your images or mental pictur Dr. Emile Coue, the French doctor who threw so much light on the power of sugges es. tion, declared that imagination was a much stronger force than willpower. When t he two are in conflict, he said, the imagination always wins. For example, lets s ayCopyright you are an 2010 inveterate The Princeton smokerLicensing of good Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 156 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and cigars CAMBRIDGE decidePUBLISHING to break yourself GROUP of the habit. You grit your teeth, shove out your chin, and solemnly declare that you are going to use your willpower to qui t for good. Then suddenly comes the idea of the taste of a good cigar, its aroma and soothing effects your imagination goes to work and out the window goes your Charles resolution Fourier, to break the early the bad 19th-century habits. French philosopher, declared that the wo rlds future would grow out of the brain of man and be shaped, controlled, and dir ected by the desires and passions by which men are moved. His prophecy is coming true, yet man has barely begun shaping and controlling the world through his mi All of this brings us to the topic of desire and what you actually want in life. nd. Comparatively few people have really great desires. Most are content to go alon g filling the tiny niches in which they find themselves. They accept their posit ions in life as something that fate has fixed for them, and very seldom do they make either a mental or physical effort to extract themselves from those positio They never raise their sights or realize that its just as easy to shoot at a bird ns. on Copyright a limb thirty 2010 The feet Princeton above the Licensing ground as Group it is Published to shootby atPrinceton the ground Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 157 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the same CAMBRIDGE distancePUBLISHING away. ManyGROUP engage in wishful thinking which by itself is witho ut effect But when you simply run across becauseathe person power who factor is really is missing. going to town and there are many you realize that his or her desire projects the greater power behind it all. The way seems easy for those people, and to a great degree it is, because they are putting to use the powers of their subconscious minds which in turn magnetize, c oordinate, and then transmit to their conscious minds electrifying visions of wh at be So they reminded: most desire. whatever you fix your thoughts upon or steadily focus your imagi nation upon, that is what you attract. This is no mere figure of speech, but a f act that anyone can prove to his or her own satisfaction. Whether the results co me through magnetic, electrical, or some other energy is still undetermined. But while man hasnt been able to define thought-attraction, its manifestations can b e seen on every hand. It is like the electrical field itself we do not know exac tly what electricity is, although we know how to generate it through various mat erial kinds of energy-producing apparatus; we see electricity manifest every tim e Copyright we turn 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 158 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON on However, a light CAMBRIDGE itor issnap very PUBLISHING adifficult switch.GROUP for the average person to concentrate for any leng th of time, to say nothing of holding a mental picture for any great period. 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our mind with astonishing rapidity. You are constantly being swayed by what you read, see, and hear, and as a result, the coordinating part of this creative for ce gathers all these scattered elements together in a confused mass, instead of making That brings a clear us to andadynamic system of picture mechanics of your by which desire. anyone can focus thoughts so th athave I theybeen willin penetrate the private to the offices deepest of a depths greatof many theindustrial subconscious leaders, mind. business men, and bankers. And long before I understood this science of belief, I was imp ressed with the pictures, photographs, slogans, and bits of statuary to be found in the inner sanctums of great firms. In the office of the head of a great util ity concern hung photographs of the industrys early leaders. In another office we reCopyright pictures 2010 of the The great Princeton financiers Licensing of history. Group Published In by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 159 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON some there CAMBRIDGE were busts PUBLISHING of Napoleon, GROUP in others, little shrines or good-sized statu es of Buddha. I saw offices where there hung on the walls such slogans as We do t he impossible any place, any time, If it can be done, we can do it, Do it now, Be a s lf-starter dont wait to be cranked. It is reported that the private office of F. W . Woolworth, who became known as the Napoleon of business, was a replica of Napo leons study. Undoubtedly many of you have seen or heard of such displays. But has There it ever canoccurred be only one to you answer: what that theirthey purpose serve was? as a constant reminder getting the picture across to the occupant of the room that he can succeed as did those bef ore him. Every time he looks around the room, a motto or a slogan meets his gaze . He sees the eyes of Napoleon upon him when he sits at his desk; he feels a tou ch of the spiritual as he gazes at the little shrine. In other words, executives use a form of mechanics to excite their imaginations pictures to inspire them, or a series of suggesting forces that reach their subconscious minds. In the off ices of many doctors (including some who would scoff at the great power of sugge stion) hang the photographs of great men of medicine or famous teachers in medic alCopyright schools. 2010 I have The often Princeton wondered Licensing if the Group doctors Published realizedby the Princeton underlying Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 160 Rights Group Reserved. 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He came out a ll right, Edison must have thought well of that expression and perhaps reflected much upon Often I have it,likened or elsethis he would matter not ofhave desire kept and itsuggestion on his desk tobefore the planting him. of veg etable or flower seeds. Once the soil is prepared and the tiny seeds are placed in it, it is only a short time before they put forth roots and sprouts begin to appear. They are determined to emerge from the ground. When they start upward th rough Copyright the soil 2010 inThe search Princeton of sunshine Licensing and Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 161 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE moisture, obstacles PUBLISHING mean nothing GROUPto them. If they cant push aside stones or bits of wood, theyll extend themselves and grow around them. They succeed, blossom, an d give forth fruit, vegetables, or flowers unless some greater force destroys th em. While we are not aware of the details of natures secrets, we observe the seed buried for a long time in the dark, gradually expanding and exerting itself unt il it becomes a thing of beauty or usefulness. Cultivate it, attend it, give it sunshine and water, and it grows into full life. Remember it always produces aft er it So itsis kind, withbe the itsuggestions single or hybrid. you impart to your subconscious mind. The results will be pure or complex, depending upon the original seed and the attention you give it. In other words, plant the right kind of thought of a pure strain and ha bitually feed it with strong affirmative thought always directed toward the same end, and it will grow into a mighty force, finding ways and means of overcoming all obstacles. 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THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONstill would CAMBRIDGE be living PUBLISHING in theGROUP Stone Age. Everything we have in our modern world i s the result of desire. Indeed, desire is the motivating force of life itself. Y ou see it all around you in the animal kingdom, in all forms of plant life, and in all acts and operations of human beings. Hunger promotes a desire for food, p overty a desire for riches, cold a desire for warmth, inconvenience a desire for Desire ease and is the efficiency. generating power of all human action, and without it no one can ge t very far. The keener, the more urgent the desire, the sooner its consummation. It marks the difference between the uneducated ditch- digger and the person of accomplishment, between the clerk and the executive, between the failure and the success. So you must always start with desire. Keep in mind that by the magic o f believing, you can obtain what you picture in your minds eye. The mechanics are there only to help you focus your desire-picture sharply on the screen of your subconscious mind, and let you shut out all distracting thoughts, negative ideas , or any fear or doubt projections that might otherwise penetrate to your subcon SoCopyright scious. lets get2010 downThe to Princeton the mechanics! Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 163 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON three Secure CAMBRIDGE or four PUBLISHING index cards. GROUP (Ordinary business-size cards will do.) Go to your office, your home, your room, or any other place where you can have privacy . Sit down and ask yourself what one thing you desire above everything else. Whe n the answer comes and you are certain that it is your uppermost desire, then at the top of one card write a word picture of it. One or two words may be suffici ent on Then aeach job, card a duplicate better job, themore word picture money, on or the home original. of my own. Carry one in your billfold or handbag, place another alongside your bed or fasten it to your bedst ead. Prop another on your shaving mirror or dressing table, and still another on your desk. If you bear in mind successful executives custom of keeping in their offices pictures, mottoes, slogans, busts, and statues, you will appreciate that in using the cards you are utilizing the same forces, only in much more concent rated form. The whole idea, as you may have guessed, is to make you see the ment al picture at all hours of the day. Just before going to sleep at night and upon waking in the mornings, concentrate upon your thoughts with added force. But do nt stop with merely those two periods of the twenty-four hours. The more often yo u Copyright visualize 2010 your The desire Princeton by thisLicensing method (or Group by one Published of yourby own Princeton devising), Cambridge the Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 164 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON speedier At the start, CAMBRIDGE its materialization youPUBLISHING may have no GROUP will ideabe. of how the results are to come. Yet you need not concern yourself. Just leave it to the subconscious mind, which has its own ways of making contacts and of opening doors and avenues that you may have never even guessed at. You will receive assistance from the most unexpected sources. Ideas useful in accomplishing your program will come at most unexpected times. Y ou may be suddenly struck with the idea of calling a person you have not heard f rom for a long time, or writing to someone you have never seen before. You may g et the impulse to read the newspaper or listen to the radio. Whatever the idea i s, follow Many successful it. people get ideas during the night that are immediately transcrib ed to a pad so they will not be lost. For many years before I thoroughly underst ood this science, I was associated with an executive who, after reaching his des k in the morning, would begin pulling notes out of his pocket. In a few minutes things would begin to hum. These notes might contain comments on various adverti sing media, an outline of a sales campaign, new purchases, or a rearrangement of the Copyright sales organization; 2010 The Princeton but Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 165 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON all of them CAMBRIDGE contributed PUBLISHING to the GROUP success of his operations. Keep a pad and pencil on a stand near your bed, and if ideas come during the night, note them down so that I recall you the wont time forget whenthem I put inthis the science morning.to work in order to save the firm of w hich I was then vice-president. All of the employees sat around in a half-circle , and as I began my remarks, I asked each man to provide himself with paper and pencil. Most of them thought that I wanted them to take notes. But there was con siderable surprise when I told them to write down what they most wanted in life.

Two I explained or three of that the ifyounger they would men laughed, do this, but I would the older point men, out the realizing way to that obtain I was it. deadly earnest, did as I suggested. To the younger men I said simply: If you wan t to hold on to your jobs, youll do as I ask. For if this stuff doesnt work, well a ll be out on the street. They complied. I told them to show no one what they had After the meeting, one of the younger men came to me to apologize for having lau written. ghed. Copyright Thats 2010 allThe right, Princeton Bob, Licensing I told him. Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 166 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON But itCAMBRIDGE sounded so PUBLISHING silly at first, GROUP he explained. Imagine me getting a new automobile by simply writing it down. But after you explained the science of it all, I gue ss it does Several years make later, sense. this chap came to my home and said he wanted to show me som ething. In the years Therethat along followed, the curbIwas found parked opportunities his expensive to ask newthose automobile. who attended that meeting if they had obtained what they had written down. Without exception, eve ry man had. One had wanted a wife of a certain nationality He got her, and there are two fine boys in the family. Another put down the figures of a very sizable fortune. He got it. Another man wanted a beach cottage, another a better home, and so on. Steadily through the years every one of these men has constantly made money, many of them averaging monthly more than they had ever made before in th eir I cannot lives, emphasize much to too the strongly astonishment thatof you many should others tell inno the one same just line what ofthe business. words on the cards mean, nor give anyone an inkling of what you desire. To do so may e ndCopyright disastrously 2010for Theyou. Princeton When you Licensing get a better Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 167 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE understanding of this PUBLISHING science, GROUP you can understand how thought vibrations conscio us or unconscious, because of envy or some other cause can be set up to countera ct illustrate To your own. this, I am reminded of a doctor friend who applied for a commissio n in the Navy during the early days of World War II. He closed his office, told everyone that he was joining the Navy, and found himself the recipient of many p arties and gifts. It taught me a lesson never to tell anyone of my plans or desir es, he laughingly told me later. It was two years before I received notice of assi gnment, and meanwhile I had to go back into private practice. It certainly was e mbarrassing to get all those various farewell gifts, only to cool my heels at ho me for The truth twois years. that when you talk about what youre going to do, you scatter your fo rces. You lose your close connection with the subconscious, and unless you do as directed here, you will frequently have to start all over again in your program Go My of Copyright readers achievement. and tell will 2010 no recall man The Princeton still whatholds I said Licensing true. beforeGroup aboutPublished Mumbo Jumbo, by Princeton chants, Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 168 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE incantations and affirmations. PUBLISHING GROUP By engaging in them, you put the suggestive force s to work These repetitive to stimulate words and yourphrases, subconscious. said silently or aloud, are merely methods o f convincing the subconscious mind for autosuggestion, no matter what the form, is the only way of molding its pattern. The subconscious is extremely receptive, and it can be convinced of whatever propositions you present to it. Be they tru e or false, positive or negative, once they are imbedded in the subconscious min d, it goes to work with all of its faculties and energies to materialize them in real life. The simpler the words to express the ideas you wish conveyed to the subconscious, the better. For example, if you are unhappy, use the words, I am ha ppy. You dont need the cards for this. Just repeat them to yourself twenty or thir ty times. I am strong, I am happy, I am convincing, I am friendly, Everything is fin a few simple affirmations you can use to change your mental point of view for th e better. But if the effects are to be permanent, you must continue the affirmat ions Through Copyright until repetition, the 2010 desired Thethe Princeton results person Licensing are obtained. with a fixed Group goal, Published a clearby picture Princeton of their Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 169 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE desire, or ideal always PUBLISHING before GROUP them causes it to be buried deeply in their subco nscious mind and thus thanks to its generative and sustaining power realizes the ir goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your Suppose faculties youand want powers a better become jobdirected or a promotion. to that Not end.only use the cards, but keep t elling yourself constantly and continuously that you are going to get that job.

You have already visualized it if you have accepted this science, but the repeti tion will be the means of driving the suggestion deeply and firmly into your sub conscious mind. This may be compared to driving a nail into a board. The first t ap puts the nail in place, but only by a number of heavy blows is the nail drive n home. Never forget that the subconscious mind will accept and carry out whatev er it is powerfully instructed to do. A great example of power developed by repe tition is the story of Milo and the calf. Every day he lifted the calf, until th e Copyright Think day of came all when 2010 of this he The was inlifting Princeton terms of a the Licensing full-grown so-called Group bull. material things. Published by Princeton You know Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 170 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON that two CAMBRIDGE objects cannot PUBLISHING occupy GROUP the same space at the same time. Your mind can be compared to that space: you cant have very many negative thoughts or doubts if y ou keep your mind filled with positive, powerful, and creative thoughts. Conside r your mind a room with a single door, and you have the only key. It rests with you to decide what is to come through the door that is, whether you are dominate d by positive or negative thoughts, and which ones you are going to admit for yo ur subconscious mind will respond to the vibrations of the thoughts that are str ongest in you. Alternately, compare your mind to a tank filled to the brim with clear, pure wat er. You cannot put any object into that tank without displacing some of the wate r andyou When causing permit the negative tank tothoughts overflow. of doubt or fear to enter your consciousness, obviously some of your forceful, positive, creative thoughts will have to give w ay, and consequently you weaken your positive state. Thus, as long as you do not accept unfavorable vibrations, your subconscious mind will not be hindered by a nything you may hear, see, or experience. In other words, you must keep your sub conscious Copyright mind 2010 fed The atPrinceton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 171 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON all times CAMBRIDGE with positive PUBLISHING thoughts GROUPso mat their strong vibrations will ward off al l negative For years philosophers and destructive havethoughts taught that fromif the weoutside. are to be happy, we must be busy w orking or doing something that holds our attention. Freud claimed that happiness arises from only two abilities being able to work, and to love. The explanation is that when we concentrate on some pleasant task or individual, our minds are no longer open to roving and undesirable vibrations. That is why many doctors ad vise business and professional men to take up hobbies to divert their minds from thoughts of worry and trouble. Others advise trips, new scenes, new personal as sociations away from the too-familiar places where it is difficult to escape fro m once I disturbing knew an thought elderly vibrations couple who and lost associations. their only son in the Normandy invasion. For months after receiving news of the boys death, the couple kept his room intac t just as it was when he left. On Sundays they would spend hours rearranging the furniture and fondly handling his belongings. With minds so constantly occupied with the memories of their son, was it any wonder that they became embittered o ldCopyright people? I2010 knowThe what Princeton it Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 172 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONto means CAMBRIDGE lose loved PUBLISHING ones, but GROUP I have also learned that it is necessary to close the door on yesterday and keep it closed. We live today, not yesterday. As Edgar Allan Poe wrote in The Premature Burial, There are moments when, even to the sob er eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a He ll . . . The grim legion of sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful but . . . they must sleep, or they will devour us they must be suffered Now to that slumber, you understand or we perish. how circumstances, environments, and material objectives come into your life through thinking, its up to you to make your cherished dream s come true. Suppose you want a new home. After youve got the first glimpse of the picture, st art your affirmations going. Use any expressions you wish, or something like thi s: Im going to have that new home. Im going to have that new home. Im going to have that new home. And one day, you will find the way, and the new home will be yours . If youre a salesman and want to increase your sales, use the cards, as already su ggested. Tell yourself as frequently as possible that you are going to increase your Copyright sales. 2010 Do itThe with Princeton emphasis. Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 173 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America

THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Strange as it mayPUBLISHING sound, we usually GROUP get what we anticipate. And if you anticipat e increasing your sales and believe that you are going to do it, your sales will mount just as though some invisible friend were helping out. The idea of antici pation One insurance holds in man everything increasedwe his do. business more than 200 per cent within a year af ter he began using this science: The sales manager told me to call upon Mr. Blank and not come back to the office until I got an order out of him. This prospect was a hard nut to crack. Everyone knew he had the reputation of being very stubb orn and cranky with little time for salesmen to say nothing of us in the insuran ce business. However, I knew that he had lots of property and had to carry all s orts of fire and liability coverage. As I went down the stairs from our office a nd all the way up the street to this prospects office, I kept repeating to myself , Fred, youre going to sell him, youre going to sell him. Youre going to find him a fine old fellow, no matter what anyone says. Hes going to be friendly and hes goin g to accept what you have to offer. Maybe I repeated those ideas a couple of hund red times. Not only did he turn out to be very cordial, but I came away with an order for a $25,000 policy, the first our company had ever secured from the old Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu man. blishing All www.successmanual.com 174 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON Not long CAMBRIDGE after, this PUBLISHING insurance GROUP man left the agency he was connected with, opened a firm of his own, rapidly developed a country estate into a showplace, and tol d me Carnegie Dale that he was hasfixed told of financially the great success for life. of Howard Thurston, the magician. Ac cording to the story, before going out on the stage, Thurston would repeatedly t ell himself that he loved his audience and that he was going to give them the be st he had Another man inhim. at seventy-eight, He made two million he didnt dollars! look more than sixty was a profound studen t of this subject and used it to make a tremendous fortune for himself. His late r interests were along other lines, but he declared that he still ordered his su bconscious I talk to it mind just to as getIbusy might for behim: talking to some individual to whom I was giving o rders. And I never have any doubts or fears that it will not do as ordered. If I get an upset stomach, I simply tell it to be itself and act naturally; so with other ailments that arise. If I want to awaken at five oclock in the morning with out using an alarm clock, I peremptorily order my subconscious mind to awaken me . Copyright It has never 2010 failed The Princeton in anything Licensing so far.Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 175 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON I haveCAMBRIDGE long had a PUBLISHING theory that GROUP the subconscious mind controls our age what I mean is that for centuries the subconscious mind has been led to believe that a man s hould be old when he is sixty. For most people who have accepted the thought, it cant be otherwise, for that is what the subconscious mind believes. However, in my case I refuse to accept it and, as you know, I am as active as I was when I w as fifty All of which years shows old the and advisability I expect toof carry not planting on for some in your yearssubconscious to come. mind th e idea that you are becoming old and incapable merely because the years are pass ing. It also shows that by keeping the subconscious free from the fixed idea of a decline, you improve your chances of prolonging your life far beyond the so-ca lled allotted Repetition is the span. fundamental rhythm of all progress, the cadence of the univers e. Its the chuff-chuff of the locomotive that pulls a train across the continent, its the repeated explosions that generate power in the internal combustion engin e. The constant surging of the water against the turbine blades generates electr ical power. The tap-tap of the hammer drives the nail into place. The deadly put -put Copyright of the 2010 machine Thegun Princeton mows down Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 176 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE everything beforePUBLISHING it. Constant GROUP and determined effort breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. The repeated auto- or hetero- suggestion makes you a nd others believe. The tap-tap of the same conscious thought causes it to be imp ressed can Anyone upondemonstrate your subconscious the efficacy mind and of the on the repeated subconscious suggestion, mindswhether of others. used con structively or destructively, but Professor Hugo Mtinsterberg, Harvard psycholog ist, throws considerable light on its value. He said, The value of repetition mus t distinctly be understood in the relation of the inner-setting and the inner me

Before ntal attitude. World War II there was in Paris a famous institute devoted to teaching su ggestion by Listeners could means hear of any phonograph repeated records suggestion played they over wanted and over that again. they were in good health; that they had the power to overcome their difficulties; that they could receive For Copyright years help mothers 2010 in other The have Princeton ways. been taught Licensing to talk Group to their Published babies byand Princeton small Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 177 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE children while they PUBLISHING were asleep, GROUPrepeating suggestions that they were going to g row well and strong, develop good habits, and become good citizens. Since the ch ildren were asleep, the suggestions were obviously directed to their subconsciou s minds. In the destruction of Carthage, the greatest maritime city of the ancient world, we have an instance of the power of the repeated suggestion at work. Convinced that Rome and Carthage could not both survive, Cato, the great Roman statesman, ended every speech in the Senate with the words, Carthage must be destroyed! He ke pt it up until the Romans were repeating in their sleep, Carthage must be destroy ed people Many and Carthage become confused was. and frustrated because they let themselves be influe nced by others negative thoughts. This is a weakness of many salesmen, when they absorb too much of what the prospect says about his reasons for not buying. Repe tition of negative thoughts, if continued long enough, will discourage even the most powerful. Unless your mind is closed against them and you counteract them b y constantly thinking and radiating positive thoughts, sooner or later you will find Copyright yourself 2010 sunk. TheSome Princeton peopleLicensing wear themselves Group Published out trying byto Princeton combat negative Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 178 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON by forces CAMBRIDGE superhuman PUBLISHING effort and GROUP sheer will power, never realizing that their own minds, operating in accordance with the suggestive influences, are causing all the trouble. Whether we know it or not, we are all victims of suggestion in many cases almost to the point of being hypnotized. We follow along a beaten path of living just because weve been doing it for decades. For years, houses, churches, office build ings, automobiles, buses, all followed a certain pattern. We wear certain styles of clothing, hold to certain customs, all because we have been led to believe t hrough the never- ending suggestive thoughts that come to us from all sides that this is the thing to do. When someone adopts a new way of doing things, they ar e considered a crank or an eccentric. On close analysis, mass hypnosis can be se enhave I operating observed in that everythose humanwho activity. consciously use this science (as well as those wh o may be using it unconsciously) are people of tremendous energies, virtually hu man dynamos. They not only use their imaginations and hold strong beliefs and co nvictions, but they are great doers in action. And that brings me to a most impo rtant Copyright statement: 2010 The Faith Princeton withoutLicensing action isGroup Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 179 Rights Group Reserved. 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That machine came o ut of Teslas mind. His thoughts created it. There is an example of a man who coup led his Some metaphysicians faith with and action. teachers of the occult claim that a person can sit in th eir own office and visualize orders pouring on to their desk and the orders will quickly materialize. But to accomplish this, the mental picture or thought proj ection Copyright must 2010 be definite The Princeton and unwavering, Licensingand Group that Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 180 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE requires great practice PUBLISHING and concentration. GROUP Stranger things have been recorded, b ut for the person who has not yet developed this mind-power, it is well to add a ction and energy to ones efforts by doing the things, following out the ideas, an

Many d making years the ago contacts I read that dictated Franklin by the D.subconscious Roosevelt constantly mind. made use of his subc onscious mind, and I am certain that he knew much about the use of the repeated suggestion. He never looked backward, but always forward yesterday was a closed bo ok. On April 17, 1945, five days after F.D.R.s death, Kirke L. Simpson an Associa ted Press Staff Writer and an intimate of the late President told of a party giv en Roosevelt Roosevelt wasafter determined he hadto been walk stricken again, somehow, with infantile anyhow, paralysis. without crutches. Accor ding to Mr. Simpson, his intimates decided to give him a cane as a token that th ey too expected him to walk again, and after it was presented, F.D.R. sat all ev ening with the cane cuddled against his shoulder. Simpson said that he would rea ch up to pat its crook now and then, and we knew that he was saying to himself, Yo ull Copyright walk again, 2010 The Frank Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 181 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Roosevelt; Roosevelt firmly you will PUBLISHING believed walk again! inGROUP the power of believing. An article in Time Magazine for March 4, 1946 told of a letter he wrote in 1924 to a doctor seeking advice on the treatment of infantile paralysis. Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that he thoug ht gentle exercise, massage, and sunbathing were essential. But, he added, more imp ortant than most therapy is a belief on the patients part that he will eventually recover. Here we have a wonderful example of the magic of believing at work, and of Copyright the part2010 repeated The Princeton suggestion Licensing plays inGroup establishing Published belief. by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 182 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CHAPTER THE MIRROR SUBCONSCIOUS TOUGHEST CAMBRIDGE 6 TECHNIQUE problem PUBLISHING FOR RELEASING that confronts GROUP most people is a lack of money. While I have heard of people finding bundles of $1,000 bills by using this Mind Stuff, I thi nk that money comes as a result of combining Mind Stuff and energized action. Ce rtainly your thought can attract money, and once it appears on the horizon, your thought will lead you to ways and means of acquiring it. While I was in the inv estment banking business, I knew many people of large means and found that every one of them had a money consciousness. They thought wealth, and their coming to p ossess Copyright it was 2010 quite Thesimilar Princeton to Licensing my own experience Group Published related by earlier Princeton in this Cambridge book. Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 183 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON It is always CAMBRIDGE the same PUBLISHING technique, GROUPno matter what your desires. Get the picture of what you want and keep telling yourself that youre going to get it. But dont thin k it is going to come to you if you merely indulge in a period of watchful waiti ng. Go to work, always keeping your goal in mind, and start saving. Every dollar you save out of your weekly paycheck is a step nearer to the fortune that is go ing to be yours. Consider it as such and save as many dollars as you can. The mo re you Then put save, yourthe savings faster out you atwill interest, build invest that fortune. them where they will work advantag eously for you, not by gambling or playing the market, but in securities of prov en worth, in real estate, or in a business of your own. As your investment grows under your money consciousness, youll be agreeably surprised to find that the mo re you have, the more you accumulate. Furthermore, youll find it exciting and sti mulating. Opportunities for profitable investments will come to you from many un expected and unknown sources, but dont make the mistake that many do and follow w ill-o-the-wisps; I recall one2010 Copyright woman The get and Princeton sound her daughter advice Licensing before who in Group you twenty-five invest Published a years cent. by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 184 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE accumulated more than PUBLISHING half aGROUP million dollars, largely represented by apartment h ouses and store buildings. The womans husband died shortly after World War I, lea ving her with a fairly large-sized house. She was at her wits end how to support herself and her daughter, who had just finished high school. She had had no prev ious experience in holding a job or carrying on a business, but she could cook a nd keep That washouse. the start, One morning and success the idea camecame rapidly. to her Within to take twoin years roomers she sold and boarders. the hous e and the business, realizing a handsome profit, and then bought a much larger h ouse directly across the street from a well-known mens club, believing that with her high-grade cooking she could get much of the clubs overflow business. She did and prospered; even though she employed plenty of help, no task was too lowly f orretired A her in elderly a rush period. business man who had taken up his home at her place one day su ggested that she open a tea room. He said he would provide the necessary funds t

o fix up a place. She found the top floor of an office building in the business section and opened the tea room. She herself served as hostess, and her daughter was Copyright cashier2010 during Therush Princeton hours,Licensing and at Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 185 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONtimes other CAMBRIDGE helping PUBLISHING in the kitchen GROUP and directing her employees, she soon made th e tea room a favorite eating-place for business men. That led to her purchase of a beach hotel through a mortgage company, and also to the profitable sale of th e tea All ofroom. this time she was investing in securities, and before long she had accumu lated a nest egg of $25,000, which went as the first payment on a run-down apart ment house. Remodeling under her direction made the building remarkably attracti ve, and under her management it became very popular. With the great results achi eved, her reputation came to the attention of an insurance company that owned ot her apartment houses, and she was offered the management of a number of them on a salary and a percentage basis. As her capital grew, her opportunities to buy a partment houses followed, and the last time I heard of this woman with the moneyconsciousness, she owned not only apartment houses in this particular city, but had also purchased an apartment house at a nearby beach resort. Before, it had o perated only during the summer months, but now she has paying customers all year It round. Copyright has long 2010 been The my observation Princeton Licensing that a person Groupwith Published a workable by Princeton idea Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 186 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON has seldom CAMBRIDGE any difficulty PUBLISHING inGROUP getting money to finance themselves. However, they must be thoroughly sold on the idea themselves before they can convince others to lend them money. If you contemplate having your own business, think about this a nd use the science of belief, for youll find someone with money who will help you . Great fortunes are not built in a day, but come as a result of dollars adding th emselves to those you already have or to those you earn and save. But if you wan t a fortune, you must put your mind and energies to work. It will come just use the magic Heres another of believing. case where by using this science, success followed in rapid order i n less than ten years. A corner druggist went into bankruptcy. The fixtures were owned by the owner of the building, a man of considerable wealth, and most of t he stock by a wholesale druggist. A young pharmacist heard about the location, b ut had no funds with which to proceed. Finally the wholesaler and the landlord g ot together, and the young fellow sold himself to both of them. The landlord, an xious to keep the place occupied, agreed to finance the young fellow for several months and, with necessary guarantees to the wholesaler, the place was reopened . Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 187 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON His wife CAMBRIDGE helped behind PUBLISHING the counter GROUP and at the fountain, and the business began t o grow. For a long time the young druggist had been interested in a preparation which he thought would help people, but he had never had the funds to finance himself. O ne day he decided to talk with the owner of the building. So thoroughly did he b elieve in his plan that he had no trouble in convincing the owner, who organized a company for the young fellow and put up $5,000 to start. For months the prepa ration was bottled in the basement of the druggists rented home during evenings a fter the store was closed. People began to buy it in increasing quantities, and the business began to expand. It spread all over the country. Within a few years the landlord was not only paid off, but told me that his profit was better than $50,000. The young fellows income was now more than $100,000 a year; he and his company In the midst now own of the so-called building where Depression, he started. another man told me a remarkable story . He had been in clerical positions most of his life, but one day found himself on the PA payroll. To get help for some of her troubles, his wife had taken up w ith Copyright a religious 2010organization The Princeton that Licensing insisted Group uponPublished by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 188 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON tithing One night CAMBRIDGE his thatwife is, PUBLISHING upon all members prevailed GROUP upon this contributing man to accompany 10 percent her to of church, their incomes. and then t he light hit me, as he told me. Upon arriving home, something led him to search for an old formula which his father had used in preparing a lotion that could be us

ed in all barber and beauty shops. Finding the formula, he began visiting junk s hops and scrap piles to gather old bottles, which he took home and washed and th ey became the first containers. This man went personally from barbershop to barb ershop, from beauty parlor to beauty parlor. So convincing were his stories that before long he gave up his WPA job and opened up a plant of his own. He believe d thoroughly that the tithing principle was responsible for his good fortune and for all of the ideas that came to him. His product became widely known througho ut the country, but the man no longer supplied the trade personally wholesalers pushed it, and he had his own sales organization as well. Another illustration o f the magic Thousands ofof people, believing. particularly the Mormons, are firm believers in tithing, an d,Copyright one of our 2010 greatest The Princeton industrialists, Licensing who Group preached Published religion by Princeton in his Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 189 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON own organization CAMBRIDGE and PUBLISHING to outsiders, GROUP attributed much of his success to the practic e of tithing. Another man who was very successful in the selling of baking machi nes and equipment credited his success entirely to his tithing. I cant say whethe r this giving of one-tenth of their income to the church or to some religious or charitable organization had anything to do with these individuals success. But s urely these tithers believe thoroughly in the efficacy of their practices, and w ho is thereon Everything tothe saymaterial that it plane doesnt iswork first for anthem? idea, a thought in someones mind. A person selling a commodity is actually selling an idea if its a machine, what the machine will do; if building material, how it can be used; if food, how nutriti ous and tasty it will be; and so on endlessly. Every business, every fortune is the outgrowth of an idea, the workings of someones imagination followed by action . For years I watched the progress of the Jantzen Knitting Mills, makers of the fa mous Jantzen swimming suits. I have seen this manufacturing concern grow from pr actically nothing but an idea to an organization that circles the globe, and the success Copyright story 2010 ofThe those Princeton behind Licensing it rivals Group any told Published by by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 190 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Horatio Alger. Several PUBLISHING timesGROUP I discussed this science with J. A. Zehntbauer, pre sident of the company and chairman of its board, and with his permission I quote As a letter you say, he some wrotepeople to me:seem to possess an indefinable something which spurs them on to a successful and happy life, while others apparently work hard but withou t that I havesomething never tried in systematically their characters towhich develop brings thisthem indefinable satisfaction spirit, andbut success. believe it has been developed in me by my parents, and especially by my mother. There w ere four youngsters in our family, three boys and one girl. She promptly fought our inclination to say, I cant do this or I cant do that, by telling us that of course , we can do anything anyone else can do, and all that was necessary was to tackl e the job and keep on trying until it was mastered and we would then be ready to tackle a bigger job and to shrink from no job because it was great or unimporta nt. She was constantly resisting our inclination to complain or growl about anyt hing. When we were in a complaining disposition, she would say, Dont grumble but t hink Copyright what a 2010 privilege The Princeton it is to Licensing live in such Group a wonderful Publishedworld. by Princeton InsteadCambridge of Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 191 Rights Group Reserved. 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Naturally, the person best prepared for a certain position is in a far better situation to get it. I d o not wish to give the idea that a man with neither education nor experience can step out of a job in an industrial plant and immediately take over the reins of aCopyright large corporation 2010 The Princeton simply by Licensing using thisGroup science Published of belief. by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 192 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI

There may NCETON CAMBRIDGE be exceptional PUBLISHING cases GROUP of men doing this, but they are few and far betwe First things always come first, and if an individual feels entitled to a better en. job and has prepared themselves for it, then the use of this science can get the m well-known A that job, or executive one evenonce better. said to me, The difficulty I see with most people see king employment is that they are so wrapped up in themselves that they make no e ffort to impress their prospective employer with what they can do to help him, o verlooking the fact that the other fellow is only interested in you to the exten t that you can help him. This may appear a cold-blooded attitude to some readers, but in the world of competition, self-interest is a reality that all job-hunter s mustis There face. an old saying that if you do not follow your own thoughts, then you wil l follow the thoughts of the fellow who followed his. It means exactly what it s ays it marks the difference between a leader and a follower. Those who dont think and use their creative abilities are always being given orders by those who do. Unless you are willing to think, you will have to labor physically, and this me ans Copyright you will2010 receive The Princeton less pay for Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 193 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON your Therefore, work. CAMBRIDGE visualize PUBLISHING the kind GROUP of job you want. Use your cards and your constant affirmations until belief in your goal becomes a vital part of you, and you feel it in your blood, your bones, and in every tissue of your body. See yourself ac tually doing the things you visualize, and it will all work out, because every t hought held constantly and persistently sooner or later materializes after its k Everyone has taken a vacation trip at sometime or another. Did you ever stop to ind. analyze the mental processes involved? First you got the idea of the trip. Then you decided where you would go. Shortly you began to visualize yourself in the m ountains, at the seashore, or visiting some new city. The vacation turned out as planned because you saw yourself doing it before the trip actually became a rea lity. Could anything be clearer? Whatever you want to do, just apply the same pr inciples, You will remember and you the willcard get device, the samewhich successful I explained results. in detail. Before explainin g another device, which I call the mirror technique, let me tell you how I happe ned Copyright to discover 2010this The Princeton truly wonderful Licensing thing Group and Published how it canby bePrinceton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 194 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON used Many toCAMBRIDGE years bring ago, quicker IPUBLISHING was the and guest more GROUP effective of a veryresults. wealthy man who owned many patents for logging and sawmill machinery. He invited a number of newspaper publishers, ban kers, and industrial leaders to his suite in a prominent hotel to explain a new method he had devised for mill operations. Liquor flowed freely, and soon the ho st himself Just beforewas dinner verywas much served, intoxicated. I saw him stagger into his bedroom and pull himse lf up abruptly before his dresser. Thinking that I might help him, I followed hi m to the door of his room. As I stood there, he grabbed the edge of the dresser top with both hands and stared into the mirror, mumbling as a drunken man someti mes does. Then his words began to make sense, and I moved back a little to watch . I heard him say: John, you old son-of-a-gun, they tried to get you drunk, but y oure going to fool them. Youre sober, youre sober, cold sober. This is your party, andhe As youve kept repeating got to be these sober. words, while continuing to stare at his reflection in the Copyright mirror,2010 I noticed The Princeton a transfiguration Licensing Group takingPublished place. His bybody Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 195 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON was becoming CAMBRIDGE morePUBLISHING erect, theGROUP muscles of his face were tightening, and his drunke n look In my experience was disappearing. as a newspaper The whole manperformance and a police was reporter, over in I perhaps had observed five minutes. many d runken people, but never had I seen such a rapid change. Not wanting him to know I had observed him, I made for the bathroom. When I got back to the dining room , I found our host at the head of the table. While his face was still a little f lushed, to all appearances he was sober. At the end of the dinner he presented a very dramatic and convincing picture of his new plans. Not until long afterward , when I got a better understanding of the power of the subconscious mind, did I understand the science involved in transforming that obviously drunken man into Iahave cold-sober given the host. mirror technique to thousands of people, with some very unusual results. Over the years a large number of people came to me for help with their problems. A surprising number were women, and practically all of them started t

heir stories with weeping spells. The first thing I did was to stand them before a full length mirror and have them take a good look at themselves; I made them look Copyright into their 2010eyes The Princeton and tell me Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 196 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON what they CAMBRIDGE saw there PUBLISHING crybabies GROUP or fighters? Their crying soon ceased, and those c ases convinced me that a woman cannot weep while looking at herself in a mirror. Whether pride, shame, or repudiating the idea that they are weaklings stops the m short, Many great the orators, fact remains preachers, that actors, the tears and stop statesmen flowing. have used the mirror techni que. According to Drew Pearson, Winston Churchill never made a speech of importa nce unless he made it before a mirror first. Pearson also declared that Woodrow Wilson employed the same technique. Its what I call a supercharging method of ste pping up the speakers subconscious forces so that when he or she appears before a n audience, those forces flow out also and affect the listeners. By using the mi rror in rehearsing the speech as you are going to deliver it, you are creating a picture of yourself, your words, the sound of your voice, and your sight of the audience, to which the immediate future is to bring reality. By looking into th e mirror, you increase the mental vibrations by which the force and meaning of y our This Copyright words mirror will technique 2010 quickly The Princeton gives penetrate a possible Licensing to your clue audiences Group to Published the power subconscious andPrinceton by personal minds. Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 197 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE magnetism of certain PUBLISHING evangelists. GROUP I knew Bill Sunday in his heyday and often hea rd him preach, but in those days, knowing little or nothing about this Mind Stuf f, I was puzzled as to how he and other great evangelists were able to influence However, people to wesuch now have a remarkable proof that degree. Billy Sunday was versed in the use of the mirror technique; it was given by Eric Sevareid in his book Not So Wild a Dream, publi shed in 1946. Mr. Sevareid tells how he as a young newspaper reporter secured an He interview boundedwith about Billy the hotel Sunday: room, now peering intently out of the window, with one foot on the sill, now grasping the dressing-table firmly in both hands while le cturing Early on, his one reflection of the most in outstanding the mirror.insurance salesmen in America accepted the science of belief. He told me that he never called upon an important prospect w ithout first giving his sales presentation in front of a mirror. His sales were Every salesman has heard the statement, If you can convince yourself, you can con phenomenal. vince Copyright the other 2010fellow The Princeton whichLicensing is basically Group true. Published Every by great Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 198 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON mass movement CAMBRIDGE in history, PUBLISHING from GROUP religious to military, has come about through an individual whose flaming belief in their own cause gave them the power to conver t thousands of others. A person need not study psychology to know that enthusias m is contagious and that someone bursting with it can readily transmit it to oth ers. The mirror technique is a simple and effective method by which you can stre ngthen your belief in your own sales ability and thus intensify the power of you r enthusiasm. Whether we know it or not, were all engaged in selling something if not our wares , then our personalities, services, or ideas. As a matter of fact, all human rel ationships are based upon selling of one kind or another, and we all engage in i t whenever we try to persuade others to our way of thinking Legally, a contract or agreement is based on a meeting of the minds, and unless you can get the othe r person to think your way, you do not get very far. But once the minds meet on the major issues, the rest is easy, and the name on the dotted line is but a mat ter of When considered a few more inmoments. the light of the science given in this book, the mirror techn ique becomes a master method by which the subconscious minds mighty forces can be employed Copyright to2010 influence The Princeton those youre Licensing dealing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 199 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONDuring with. CAMBRIDGE the Depression PUBLISHING GROUP days, when I was working with many sales organizations to increase their business, I introduced this mirror method with some startling results. I had mirrors fastened to the inside back doors in all of a pie-baking companys trucks, so that when the driver-salesmen opened the doors to get their goods for delivery, those mirrors were the first thing they saw. I always admoni shed each man that before calling on a customer, he should determine how many pi

es he was going to sell, and then tell himself in the minor that he would leave that number of pies on his customers counter. One driver told me that he had been trying to sell one woman restaurant owner for many months, but she had always r efused to buy any pies. Then he decided to try the mirror technique. That day he sold her ten pies. At the time he told me his story he was selling her an avera ge of The mirror fifteen technique pies a was day.used with great effectiveness in insurance companies, f inancial houses, rubber mills, automobile agencies, cookie manufacturing plants, and many other organizations with salesmen or production operators. In my own o ld organization, where we had to make a complete about-face to avert disaster, I first used this technique by placing a mirror in a back room of the office wher e Copyright the employees 2010left The Princeton their Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 200 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON hats and CAMBRIDGE overcoats. PUBLISHING It was so GROUP placed that everyone had to see it when entering o r leaving the room. At first I pasted strips of paper with such slogans as Were go ing to win, Nothing is impossible to an indefatigable mind, Weve got the guts, lets pr ove it, Lets show the world were not licked and then go to town, How many are you goin g to sell today? and a great many others. We later took to using soap to write th e slogans Every morning directly a newon slogan the face appeared, of thewith mirror. the sole purpose of convincing our emp loyees that they could get business, even though other firms in the same line we re struggling to keep their doors open. Later this setup was augmented by a seco nd mirror alongside the door-frame of the main door to the office, which would a lways be the I Subsequently last placed thing mirrors the salesmen alongside sawcalendar as they frames left. on the desks of all sale smen and executives. The startling thing about it was that during the worst of t he Depression days the salesmen and I mean all of them trebled and quadrupled thei r incomes, and they maintained their progress ever since. A number of men whose monthly income probably never exceeded $300 in the best of times now averaged be tter Copyright than $1,000 2010 The a Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 201 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON This month. CAMBRIDGE may sound PUBLISHING incredible, GROUP but its true. In my files are many letters from executives, salesmen, and others who have testified to the effectiveness of the Now Stand mirror toin outline idea. front of theatechnique. mirror. It need not be full-length, but it should be large e nough of Those so you thatwho youhave can been at least in the seeArmy yourknow bodywhat fromit the means waist toup. come to attention s tand fully erect, bring your heels together, pull in your stomach, keep your che st out and your head up. Now breathe deeply three or four times until you feel a sense of power, strength, and determination. Next, look into the very depths of your eyes, tell yourself that you are going to get what you want name it aloud so you Make a regular can see ritual your lips of it, movepractice and heardoing the words it atuttered. least twice a day, mornings an d evenings and you will be surprised at the results. You can augment this by wri ting with soap on the face of the mirror any slogans or key words you wish, so l ong as they are the key to what you have visualized before and want to see in re ality. Copyright Within 2010 a few Thedays, Princeton you will Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 202 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON have developed CAMBRIDGE a sense PUBLISHING of confidence GROUP that you never realized you could build wit hinyou If yourself. are planning to call on an exceptionally tough prospect or are proposing to interview the boss whom you may have previously feared, use the mirror techni que and keep it up until you are convinced that you can make the proper presenta tion without any trepidation. And if you are called upon to make a speech, by al l means practice before a mirror. Gesticulate, pound your fist on the palm of yo ur other hand to drive home the arguments use any other gestures that come natur ally As you tostand you. before the mirror, keep telling yourself that you are going to be a n outstanding success and that nothing in this world is going to stop you. Does this sound silly? Dont forget that every idea presented to the subconscious mind is going to produce its exact counterpart in objective life, and the quicker you r subconscious gets the idea, the sooner your wish becomes a picture of power. C ertainly it is not good business for you to tell anyone of the devices you emplo y, because scoffers might ridicule you and shake your confidence, especially if you Copyright are just2010 beginning The Princeton to learnLicensing the science. Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu

203 Rights blishing All www.successmanual.com Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON If you are CAMBRIDGE an executive PUBLISHING or sales GROUPmanager and want to put more push into your ent ire organization, teach your employees the mirror technique and see that they us e it,has Much just been as written many organizations about the power now do. of the eyes. The eyes are said to be the w indows of the soul; they reveal your thoughts. They express you far more than yo u imagine. They permit others to get your number, as the saying goes. You will fin d, however, that once you start this mirror practice, your eyes will take on a p ower that you never realized you could develop (something that writers have refe rred to as a dynamic or fascinating power). This will give you that penetrating gaze that makes others think you are looking into their very souls. Sooner or la ter will come an intensity to bespeak the intensity of your thought, which peopl e will begin to recognize. Emerson wrote that every man carries in his eye the e xact indication of his rank. Remember that your own gradation or position in lif e is marked by what you carry in your eyes. So develop eyes that bespeak confide nce. mirror This The mirror technique will help may be you. used in many different ways, and with very gratifyi ng results. If you have a poor posture, or are slovenly in your walk, you will f ind Copyright that practice 2010 The before Princeton a full-length Licensing mirror Groupwill Published work by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 204 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE wonders. Your mirror PUBLISHING shows you GROUP the person others see when they look at you, and youis It can said fashion that if yourself you act into theany part kind youof will person become youthat would part, likeand them here to again, see. t here is no better way than rehearsing your act before the mirror. Vanity has no part in this science. Consequently, dont use the mirror in a supercilious manner, but use it to build yourself into the person you wish to be. If some of the wor lds most outstanding men and women use this mirror technique to build themselves and increase their influence over other people, surely you can use it for your o wn special Much has been requirements. written about intuition and hunches. Some psychologists claim that the ideas which come to us intuitively are not something out of the blue, but ari se as a result of our accumulated knowledge or as echoes of something we may hav e seen or heard before. That may be true to some extent with chemists, inventors , and others who work by the trial-and-error method, using their prior knowledge and the results of previous experiments. But I believe that by far the greatest number of discoveries, illuminations, and inspired works come direct from the s ubconscious Copyright 2010 mind,The andPrinceton are not syntheses Licensingof Group previous Published knowledge by Princeton thats Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 205 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON been filed CAMBRIDGE away. Every PUBLISHING custom GROUP we follow, everything we utilize was first an idea in someones mind, and that idea came first in the way of a hunch, an intuitive f lash, or call it what you will. So it is wise to heed your own intuitions and to Many trust great themleaders, to the end. industrialists, and inventors have openly admitted following the hunches that came to them in odd moments of relaxation or in periods when t hey were engaged in some task other than trying to solve their problems. A good way to prompt your subconscious mind is for you to tackle a problem from all ang les consciously. Then some night, just before dropping off to sleep, order your subconscious mind to bring you the answer. You may awaken in the middle of the n ight, or the answer may come to you upon awakening in the morning or at some odd moment the next day when you are engaged in something quite different. Be quick You to may grasp have it a when hunch it to comes, visit and orwaste telephone no time a certain in following man. He through may bewith the head it. of some concern and may well be of great help to you. Because of his position, howe ver, you may fear to make the move; you struggle with your hunch on one hand and y our fear on the other. Too often, the fear wins. The next time fear or doubt ent ers Copyright your mind, 2010 ask The yourself Princeton this Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 206 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE question: What have PUBLISHING I got to GROUP lose if I do see him or call him? What harm can it d o? Your fears and doubts cant answer that question! So obey your hunch without del A word of warning should be given here, however. Many people like to gamble. Som ay. e play cards, others bet on the horse or dog races, and many play the stock mark et. Undoubtedly you have heard people say that now and then they follow their hu

nches and make a killing. But I urge you not to use your hunches in an endeavor to get something for nothing. There seems to be something fundamentally wrong ab out it, because most gamblers die broke. Also, beware of hunches that would lead you into untried fields. They may not be intuition at all, but just sudden fanc iful longings. The true kind of hunch is always concerned with something already related to you directly or indirectly, and it gives you the idea and the moment umtake I to carry it for out granted the necessary that none action. of my readers will assume this book to be an ope n-sesame to overnight riches and fame. It is intended only as a key to unlock th e door that opens on the road leading to any goal you desire. Certainly it would nt be wise to rush into undertakings far beyond your present capabilities or deve lopment. Copyright If 2010 you would The Princeton be the head Licensing of a great Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 207 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE utility concern, naturally PUBLISHINGyou GROUP would have to learn the business, just as if you aspired to become head of a huge transportation system. But by using this scienc e, you can learn the various steps that will take you to the top. However, befor e any program is undertaken, you must have a plan of action. You wouldnt go to th e corner drugstore and just ask for drugs. Youd be specific and name the brand of aspirin you wanted, And so it is with this science youve got to know what you wa nt you If and have be specific definitely about determined it. what you want and have fixed yourself a goal, then consider yourself extremely fortunate you have taken the first step that wi ll lead to success! As long as you hold on to the mental picture of your idea an d begin to develop it with action, nothing can stop you from succeeding, for the subconscious Copyright 2010 mind The never Princeton fails Licensing to obey any Group order Published given clearly by Princeton and emphatically. Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 208 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CHAPTER HOW SUCCESS TO PROJECT CAMBRIDGE 7 a matter IS YOUR PUBLISHING THOUGHTS of never-ceasing GROUP application. You must work at it diligently , or else it takes wings and flies away. At no time can you afford to rest on yo ur laurels pause for self-admiration because others may be coveting your place a nd would love to push you out of it, especially if they observe that you have a weak hold Despite the orgreat are doing strides anything that America to strengthen has made, your the position. country still has many grea t resources that havent yet been tapped. Modern technologies have opened up hithe rto-unexplored fields. But I can confidently believe that we havent seen anything yet, Copyright that still 2010 The greater Princeton thingsLicensing will be Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 209 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE accomplished by men PUBLISHING and women GROUP with imaginations and the will-to-do. Those of us who are still alive 50 years from now may well be looking on a world that makes theof As late the20th first century edition seem of this as the work, Industrial laboratory Revolution scientists doeswere today. working on what many at the time considered fantastic ideas including wearable fabrics made fro m wood fiber, materials that would be water and fire- resistant, machines that w ould capture energy from the sun, and even apparatus that would record our unspo ken fears and anxieties on a graph. All these miracles, now quite commonplace, cam e from men and womens imaginations or from their subconscious minds. Perhaps in l ess than fifty years, thought-transference or telepathy will be as commonplace a s the It hasradio been said of today. that man Who can knows? materialize anything that he can conceive of menta lly, and the millions of devices we use and enjoy today prove it. When man fully comprehends the great power of his mind and earnestly puts it to work, he will have dominion over not only this earth and everything on it, but he may reach ou t Copyright to control2010 the The nearby Princeton planets. Licensing You Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 210 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE yourself have this PUBLISHING inner spark, GROUP but you must fan it until the fire is white- hot and you must constantly stoke it, which you do by adding fuel ideas, ideas, mor e ideas, One man Iand knew action. who had many achievements to his credit and who was over seventy declared that most people fall by the wayside because they are never starting an ything I make a plan, and have for years, to start something new new for me at le ast once a week. It may only be making some simple gadget to use in the kitchen, or it may be an entirely new sales plan or reading an unfamiliar book. In follo wing this plan, I not only keep my body and mind active, but also I put to use a

lot of imaginative qualities that otherwise might fall asleep and atrophy. To m e, the idea of a mans retiring when hes sixty-five is a great mistake. As soon as a man retires and quits being active, mentally and physically, hes on the way to his grave in short order. You have seen what has happened to horses when they ar e retired. You know what happens to your automobile when you leave it outside un used Humans Copyright and are neglected; the 2010 same; Theit when Princeton starts theyto gorust Licensing on the andGroup shelf, is soon Published they headed rustby for out Princeton the or wither junk Cambridge shop. Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 211 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and The die. plan CAMBRIDGE of starting PUBLISHING something GROUP new at least once a week brings us to the matter of how valuable individual initiative is for any person who seeks success. Witho ut it, an individual is stopped as soon as they start. Men and women remain in m inor clerical positions all their lives because they never display initiative in their work, never attempt to find new ways of doing it, and never suggest impro During World War II, a number of organizations placed suggestion boxes in their vements. plants and offered prizes for the most practical. Frequently these suggestions l ed to greatly improved methods in plant operations, as well as rewards in advanc ement for the employees offering the suggestions. In a number of instances, sugg estions led to patentable devices that brought fame and fortune to those employe es supplying the initial ideas. Bear in mind that no matter how long a piece of work has been done in a certain way, theres always a better way the war demonstra tedgive So that. heed to initiative. Even if you are just a clerk behind the counter in s ome store, you must have some ideas of how goods can be better displayed or how the Copyright customers 2010 canThe be Princeton better served. Licensing Good Group ideas Published for by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 212 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE lighting, color schemes, PUBLISHING arrangement GROUP of the counters and display shelves are alw ays acceptable Closely linked with to management, initiativeand areare interest often and rewarded. attention. The more interest you take in your work, naturally the more attention you give it and the greater the results. We all do best what interests us, so if the task before you does not i nterest you, look for one that will. The more absorbing the interest, the better One that woman factor I knew alone was employed will giveas you assistant momentumto and the carry manager you of a long a large way department forward. store. Although her salary was fixed under the war-time ceiling, for several yea rs she received the stores highest Christmas bonus because of her interest and in itiative. The head of the store often sought her advice, rather than the managers . The personnel manager of a huge defense plant employing many thousands of men an d women told me that the greatest fault he found in people was that he could not depend upon them. Some fail to keep their word, others are always late for thei r engagements, still others are forever changing their minds. So if you tell som eone Copyright else that 2010 you The are Princeton going toLicensing do a Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 213 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE certain thing, doPUBLISHING it even though GROUPits fulfillment may cause you some inconvenienc e, no matter what the consequences or the cost in time or energy. You will be am ply repaid, for building a reputation for reliability will be of great value to you as Many employees you proceed holdup tothe theladder. idea that their work is given to them merely to furth er their employers interests. They never entertain the thought that they are actu ally working for themselves, with the employer merely furnishing the tools and a place for them to work. There is an old saying that unless a man has learned to take orders, he can never learn to give them. How true this is, but few people, working day after day, ever realize it is within their own power to sit some da y in only The the executives way to haveplace a friend and is give toorders. be one, said Emerson, but few ever give though t to this fundamental requirement. You cant cast your bread upon the waters witho ut having it returned, and you cant do a good deed without having a good deed don e to you in return. This is true, no matter how Pollyanna-ish it may sound to so meCopyright Rare people. indeed 2010 is the The man Princeton or womanLicensing who doesnt Group make Published an enemyby now Princeton and Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 214 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONYou then. CAMBRIDGE get outPUBLISHING of tune with GROUP someone, or perhaps they get out of tune with you . Naturally, you dont like them; as a result of your thinking, they dont like you. Fortunate is a person who is able to make a friend of that enemy and its so easi

ly done. Several men have taken a violent dislike to me, perhaps because of some thing I may have said in an unguarded moment, and would have figuratively liked to cut my throat. But they have become my staunchest friends merely by my thinki ngdont I and believing know whether thatthe they idea were ofreally converting friendly enemies people. into friends came to me out of the blue, whether I read it, or whether someone told me. But it has been part o f my creed for years, and Ive always found it to work. For example an executive w ho had taken a dislike to me for something I said critically about his companys o perations. For months, he was profanely knocking me at every opportunity. Natura lly, my first impulse was to fight back and knock him in return. But the day cam e when I realized that his enmity had resulted from something I had said about h imCopyright Hes rather not a than badthe 2010 guy, The company. Princeton I said toLicensing myself. Im Group wrong. Published I started by Princeton the feud, Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 215 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and ImCAMBRIDGE sorry. The PUBLISHING next timeGROUP I get near him, I am going to tell him that mentally. One night I met him in a club of which we were both members. He would have avoid ed me, but we met nearly face to face, and I spoke first, saying, How are you, Ch arlie? He caught something from my voice that meant a gesture of friendliness on my part, and immediately responded in the friendliest of manners. Today were the cl osest So remember, of friends. some of your enemies may be of your own making. Those friends or en emies are merely a reflection of our own thoughts the other fellow will consider us an enemy or friend according entirely to the picture which we ourselves conj ure up. Only today, as I write this I had an example of this kind of thought projection. The waste pipe of my laundry sink had clogged, and I had to call a plumber. A f ew blocks from our home was a plumbing shop, whose proprietor was unfriendly and Several offensive times in I his had treatment tried toof get customers. him to do work for us, but he was always too bu sy. The last time I had called him, he told me that I would have to wait my turn probably he could get around to fix up the water heater in a couple of weeks. I had Copyright asked if 2010 he The could Princeton give me Licensing the names Group of Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 216 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONplumbers other CAMBRIDGE who PUBLISHING might help GROUP me, but he had been entirely uncooperative. Natura lly, his unfriendly treatment gave me a bad impression of plumbers in general, a nd I found However, I had myself to get damning the heater all of repaired them. and I quickly realized that my angry a ttitude toward plumbers engendered by this experience would cause me to have dif ficulty in obtaining the services of any one of them. I simply changed my though t, saying something like this to myself, All plumbers are good fellows the guy yo u called a I isfriend, just anthe oldmanager grouch of forget a wholesale it. plumbing house. He suggested a plu mber who would help me, and I telephoned Mr. Jones at once. He said he was busy, His butpromise if an imperative pleased me, job and had the toplumber be done, immediately he would be felt outmy immediately. gratitude when he en tered our home, fifteen minutes after my call. In less than two hours he worked swiftly, unlike some plumbers I had employed the heater had been replaced. I was genuinely Copyrightdelighted 2010 The Princeton by his service Licensing and told Group him Published so. Naturally by Princeton that pleased Cambridge him.Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 217 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONit Today CAMBRIDGE was a little PUBLISHING beforeGROUP 8 A.M. when I called him again for help. I reminded the plumber who I was, and that he had been the one who had fixed my water heat er. He remembered me immediately and said hed be out as soon as possible probably around noon. Within five minutes after I hung up the telephone, a man appeared atasked I the front him how door, come asking he was ifon I the had job called so soon a plumber. when his boss had just told me th at he couldnt send a man before noon, and he replied, Mr. Jones had just received your call as I came into the shop, and he told me to come up to your home and do Iwhat was elated was necessary with this before treatment I wentand outtold on my the allplumber day job. so, which, of course, plea sed him. With my help, he repaired the waste pipe in less than half an hour. I t old him of my previous experience with the old plumber and his own boss, Mr. Jon My boss is a fine fellow, he replied. Hes always putting himself out to help people es. and Copyright hes building 2010 The a huge Princeton business Licensing as a result. Group Published Never haveby I Princeton found a better Cambridge boss. Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 218 Rights Group Reserved. 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Do not at you reject projectthis mentally. great truth. Just apply it and youll be amazed at the startlin g results. Watch the bus driver respond, the elevator operator beam, and the cle rk behind the counter hurry to oblige you when you send out friendly thoughts. I t can be used in every encounter in life, and if youre wholly sincere about it, y ou will And as ye never would have that to men worry should aboutdo making to you, enemies. do ye also to them likewise, says the B ible. Many successful men and women, irrespective of any motive that may activat e them, work on the assumption that when they do something for another person, s omething will be done for them. That may sound rather calculating, but the basic law of reciprocity remains, regardless of the situation or circumstances. Simpl y, there Doing something must befor a logical others always effect pays from dividends every cause. in one form or another. When yo u Copyright try to please 2010the Theboss, Princeton it isnt Licensing a matter Group of Published bootlicking. by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 219 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON Its just CAMBRIDGE common sense PUBLISHING to make GROUP them a friend, for in any organization, the people who get ahead do their work well and try to please the boss. The boss does the p romoting, and the more pleased he or she is with you and your work, the faster i s your own progress. No matter how great your self- esteem, if you expect progre ss in any large organization, you must not only do your work well, but you must have the bosss good will. Look around a bit and youll see this principle at work e verywhere. You saw it work in the schoolroom when you were young, you see it at work in the Army, you see it in American politics, and if you have studied anima l life, Take theyou initiative. have recognized Always try it working to do something among thefor highest the other and the fellow, lowest and species. you wi ll be agreeably surprised how things come your way, how many pleasant things are You done can for experiment you. for yourself with your dog. Pet him and be kind to him, and h is tail will wag in grateful appreciation. Hell try to lick your hand or your fac e if youll give him a chance. Scold him or strike him and he may cringe, snarl, o r even try to bite you. The reactions of people are similar, and no matter what motivates Copyright you 2010 to The do something Princetonfor Licensing the other Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 220 Rights Group Reserved. 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The same principle applies in all walks of life, yet Not many long people ago,overlook I was sitting it. in the office of the merchandise manager of one of t he largest department stores in the country when in came a woman employee to tha nk him for some advice hed given her about accepting a better position in another city. When she left, he said, You know, one thing I like about this job is the n umber of people who come to me for advice. While my job here keeps me on the run , I always take time off for employees who come to me for advice. It flatters me and makes me feel as though Im quite a fellow, and naturally I feel like doing e verything Copyright I 2010 can for The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 221 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON people This brings CAMBRIDGE who compliment me toPUBLISHING another me.point GROUP a person who desires riches must go where riches are. Alone on a desert island, a man would probably have a tough time eking out an existence, to say nothing of trying to amass a fortune. So it is in everyday pursuits. Therefore, if you want money, youve got to associate yourself with peo ple who have it or who know how to make it. This may sound rather crass. But the truth is that if you are after money, you must go where its being spent. Also, y ou must become personally acquainted with those who have the authority to spend it. If you are selling advertising and know that the head of the firm is the man with the final say, dont waste your time trying to convince minor clerks and jun ior executives. The same holds true if you are trying to sell other commodities or you If what work is for moreaimportant man, for goodness yourself. sake work for him, said Elbert Hubbard. That br ings me to a failing of many people I have worked with over a period of years la

ck of interest in their jobs. They make no effort to learn anything outside the small sphere in which their work places them. Once I made a bet with the executi veCopyright of a large 2010 concern The Princeton whose name Licensing was Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 222 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE frequently in thePUBLISHING newspapersGROUP that I could find at least twenty people in his own local organization who had never heard of him or the position he occupied. Not only did he lose the bet, but his pride was hurt when he got the proof. Curiosit y prompted me to check with other nation-wide organizations, and not a single em ployee could tell me the name of the head of the company or the street address o f itsmay This main sound office. unbelievable, even ridiculous. But if you have friends working in a minor capacity with some large institution, ask them the name of their treasu rer or senior vice-president. Unless the company publishes a house organ or empl oyee newsletter, the ignorance will surprise you. Many people accept positions a nd make no attempt to learn anything about what the adjacent department manufact ures or even about the companys general operations. Perhaps the heads of big orga nizations err in not carrying on educational campaigns for the benefit of employ Of course, there are large corporations that have house organs containing the na ees. mes of the executives and main office locations, giving details about their meth od of operation. Yet I talked with a woman who had been employed by a large manu facturing Copyright plant 2010for Themany Princeton months. Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 223 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Outside of the name PUBLISHING of the personnel GROUP manager who had hired her, she did not know the name of a single executive of the company in spite of the fact that the com panys publication with articles written by various department heads went into her The hands jobevery you now month. hold is the steppingstone to the job above it. Before you start moving toward it, how much do you know about it just how much do you know about your company and its policies both inside and out? If you are a salesperson for a major oil company or even a telephone operator, within a short time after your employment you should surely learn the names of the people who head the company and something of their history. Many firms carry group insurance, with the empl oyees paying a small part of the premiums. How many employees ever read their po licies? Few do, and, further, few know anything about their Social Security righ ts or what the various deductions taken from their payroll checks actually repre Man is heir to the wisdom of the ages found within the covers of great books, rema sent. rked one of our great wise men, and yet it is surprising how many people never r ead Copyright a book. 2010 Strange Theas Princeton it may sound, Licensing veryGroup few Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 224 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE businessmen read anything PUBLISHING besides GROUP the newspapers and a few trade journals. Profe ssional men more or less limit themselves to books and literature dealing with t heir respective fields. I mention books, for no matter what it may be biography, fiction, history, or a scientific text it is a rare book that doesnt contain an idea or two useful in your own work. No one has a monopoly of knowledge, but we all know that knowledge is power when put to use. The more you read, the more yo ur thinking is stimulated, and if you are a person of action, the more your effo rts is Now arethe accelerated. time to mention the highly interesting phenomenon of idea association and how one idea quickly links itself with another. This is of great value and should be cultivated by everyone, especially by people engaged in creative work suchexample, For as advertising, think ofwriting, an automobile. or selling. Consider for a moment how many ideas can be derived from the mental picture of the automobile. Its made of steel, alloys and plastics each furnishing major ideas that can be broken up into many others. Th en consider the wheels and tires casings, the hubcaps, the valves all bringing f urther Copyright associations. 2010 The Princeton Think of the Licensing roads Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 225 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON over which CAMBRIDGE they have PUBLISHING traveled, GROUP and their construction. Then think of oil and gas oline, which brings further ideas through association. Before we know it, you ha ve started Lets take a single seemingly idea endless in business. association Suppose of you ideas. are interested in the growth and

sale of a new strain of orange. The first question naturally is: Can it be grow n and sold at a profit? Naturally, association of ideas will lead you to determi ne all matters dealing with soil, location, climatic conditions, costs, labor pr oblems; these will lead on to marketing programs, packaging, dealers who would b e interested, brokers, shippers, and finally, the ultimate consumer. The field o f ideas becomes enormous through association started with the thought of a singl e should I orange.say a word about packaging and eye-appeal, because here again we deal w ith the power of suggestion. Dealers in groceries, fruits, and garden vegetables know that even if there is no improvement in the products themselves, artistic, attractive-looking packages will bring a better price. To discover this fact fo r yourself, you have only to stroll through a grocery store and note the article s that attract your attention. Excellence in packaging distinguishes the skilled chef Copyright from the 2010 ordinary The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 226 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE restaurant cook. The PUBLISHING expert chef GROUPknows the value of eye-appeal and accordingly a rranges food on the platters to give it a more appetizing look, while the averag e short-order cook, probably neither knowing nor caring, piles it on in any old For several years I owned a celery farm. My renter, a slovenly fellow, was alway fashion. s complaining that he could not compete with the Japanese and gave this as an ex cuse for not being able to fulfill his rent contracts. Intuitively, the Japanese knew the value of proper packaging. Their celery would be thoroughly washed, pl aced in new crates, and if sold in the form of hearts, would frequently be attra ctively wrapped in paper carrying a boastful little message about the quality of the celery. My renter never, in my memory, washed a single bunch of celery. He packed it in second-hand crates and then complained that his Japanese competitor s were who Anyone getting has traveled all the business. through the great farming belts of the Midwest and Canad a can tell by a glance at the house or barn whether the farmer is alive or wheth er he is dying on his feet. In 1910, some of the great orchardists of the Pacifi c Copyright Northwest 2010 couldnt The Princeton sell a whole Licensing wagonload Group of Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 227 Rights Group Reserved. 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Does your whole appearance set you apart from many who pass unnoticed in the cr owd? If not, give thoughtful attention to personal packaging, for the world acce pts you as you appear to be. Take a tip from the automobile manufacturers, Holly wood make-up artists, and any of the great restaurant owners, who all know the v alue of eye-appeal and package their goods accordingly. When you have proper pac kaging and highest quality goods within, you have an unbeatable combination. The you Copyright within 2010 can do The the Princeton same thing Licensing for theGroup outside Published you by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 228 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and To satisfy youCAMBRIDGE tooyourself will have PUBLISHING onthe what unbeatable GROUP the rightcombination. appearance for you really is, just pass by where there is construction under way. If you are well-dressed and have an air of prosperity and importance, workmen in your path will step aside. Or you might step into an outer office where others may be waiting to see a certain executiv e. Notice that the important-looking individual with the air and voice of author ity gets first attention, not only from the office attendants but from the execu No better example of the impressiveness of a good appearance can be given than t tive. he distinction made among defendants at a police station. The stylishly dressed, well-poised businessman is seldom ill-treated, while the man who looks like a b um lands almost immediately in a cell. As a police reporter on metropolitan news

papers for a number of years, I saw this happen countless times. The fellow who looked as though he might be somebody and who had been arrested for a minor infr action, often got a chair in the captains office until he could telephone a lawye r or some friend to obtain his release, while the low-life type was carted off t o Copyright jail, to get 2010 his The release Princeton whenLicensing and if heGroup could. Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 229 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON The head CAMBRIDGE of a huge PUBLISHING automobile GROUP distributing agency told me that he was frequently called upon to close a sale with wealthy men who always bought the most expensi ve cars. Not only do I take a shower, he said, and change all my clothes, but I go to a barbershop and get everything from a shave to a shampoo and manicure. Obvio usly, it has something to do with my appearance, but further than that, it does something to me inside it makes me feel like a new man who could lick his weight If inyou wildcats. are properly attired when you start out on some important undertaking, yo u will feel within yourself that sense of power, which will make people give way before you and even stir others to help you on your way. The right mental attit ude, keeping your eyes fixed on your goal, and throwing around you the proper au ra which is done by an act of imagination or an extension of your personal magne tism will work wonders, as Theos Bernard learned when he was cornered and stoned by a crowd of natives in Tibet. In his book Penthouse of the Gods, he says that his first reaction was to fight, but immediately dismissed the thought when he recalled having been taught to assume and maintain his own aura. Thus he straigh tened Copyright his shoulders, 2010 The Princeton lifted hisLicensing head high, Group directed Published his eyes by Princeton straight Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 230 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and ahead, CAMBRIDGE moved forward PUBLISHING with GROUP a firm and rapid stride. Not only did the crowd gi venumber A way, but of years othersago came I was forward friendly and made withathe path chief for of him. a large metropolitan fire department. This middle-aged man seemed to fear nothing. Once, I told him that his associates declared he led a charmed life, and he laughed. I dont know as youd call it that. Maybe Im somewhat of a fatalist, but Ive never believed that I would be killed as long as Im chief. When I go into a place of danger, I always throw a white circle about myself, and nothing can come through that circle. It was a trick I learned from the Indians who lived near us when I was a kid. Maybe its th e worst kind of superstition, but that white aura has saved my life more times t han I like to think about. He lived to retire and died in his seventies from natu ral causes. Many baseball fans know how the great Babe Ruth called the shots. If he wanted to hit a home run into right or left field, thats where he batted the ball. How he d id this is perhaps known only to that great hero of all American boys, but surel y it was uncanny. Against the mightiest pitchers he was able to bat the ball whe reCopyright he wanted, 2010 andThe hisPrinceton homerun record Licensing is Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 231 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONPyle, something Ernie CAMBRIDGE that thestood famous PUBLISHING for war a correspondent, long GROUP time. experienced a premonition of death. Wh en he left for the Pacific Theater, Ernie had the feeling that he would not retu rn. On the other hand, many ex-servicemen told of having the feeling or belief t hat they were going to come through intense fire without being wounded and come through they did. You will find that many people subjected to great danger belie ve in the efficacy of this white circle or aura. Perhaps here again, it is the r esult of the magic of believing. Throughout the world, millions of automobile ow ners keep a small St. Christopher medal in their cars which they believe will sa ve them The vibrations from accidents. set up byBut others why affect stop there? us much more than we realize, for we take on the characteristics of those with whom we associate more or less constantly. After long years together, a man and wife frequently grow to resemble one anoth er and acquire many of one anothers habits. A baby will take on the emotional cha racteristics of the mother or the person who habitually cares for it, becoming s usceptible to the same fears, likes and dislikes and frequently these emotional qualities Copyright remain 2010 The for Princeton life. Lovers Licensing of Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 232 Rights Group Reserved. 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onal characteristics they will be ugly, friendly, happy, or quarrelsome, dependi ng is It on always the emotional important pattern to remember of the that humanawith negative whom person they associate can raise most havoc. closely. In an organization or home, a strong negative personality can do the same amount of d amage as a positive personality can do good; and when the two are pitted against one another, the negative frequently becomes the more powerful. We all know wha t happens to a man living among uncivilized people occasionally he goes native. Englishmen employed as plantation or mine operators in jungle outposts used to g uard To have against a smoothly this by running shaving organization, and meticulously all its dressing members for must dinner be attuned each evening. to the thinking of the principal executive. Thus an extremely nervous person in a posit ion of authority can put nearly every co-worker into a nervous state. You can se e this happen in almost any office or shop where the executive is of a nervous t ype. Sometimes this emotional pattern will extend throughout an entire organizat ion Copyright which,2010 after The all, Princeton is onlyLicensing the Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 233 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE extended shadow of PUBLISHING the man who GROUP heads it. A strong negative personality who is ou t of tune with the ideas of the management, can extend his negative vibrations t o others in an organization and do great damage, just as one rotten apple in a b ox will soon Likewise, onerot woman allweeping the others. can cause others in the same room to weep. One perso n laughing can make others laugh. And the yawn of a single person can cause an e pidemic of yawns. We seldom realize how much our emotional vibrations affect oth ers, If you and would how remain much weaare positive affected type, by avoid theirs. associating too much with any negativ e or pessimistic personalities. Many clergymen and personnel counselors often be come the victims of prolonged streams of people who come to them with their trou bles. The steady impact of woe and sorrow vibrations eventually reverses their p ositive To better polarity understand and the reduces effect them ofto these a negative suggestive state. vibrations, you need only re member your varying feelings upon entering different offices or homes. The atmos phere, Copyright the creation 2010 Theof Princeton the people Licensing habitually Group frequenting Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 234 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the place, CAMBRIDGE can bePUBLISHING instantly detected GROUP as upsetting, disturbing, tranquil, harmoni ous, cold or warm the arrangement of the furniture, the color scheme, the very w alls themselves, all vibrate to the thinking of the persons occupying the room, and bespeak what type of thoughts they think. Whether the home is a mansion or a shack, the vibrations are always a key to the personality of those who occupy i t. Are you afraid to take on responsibilities, afraid to make decisions, afraid to step out alone? Most people are thats why there are so few leaders and so many fo llowers. If youre confronted with a problem, the longer you put it off, the great er it becomes, and the more fearful you become of your ability to solve it. In n ot deciding, you fail to act, and in failing to act, you invite failure. Therefo re, learn to make decisions. Experience will soon teach you that once a decision is made, problems and troubles begin to disappear. Even though your decision ma y not be the best one, the mere deciding gives you strength and raises your mora le. Its the fear of doing the wrong thing that attracts the wrong thing. Decide a nd act, and chances are that your troubles will fade into thin air whether you m ake a mistake or not. All great men and women make quick, firm decisions that fl owCopyright from their 2010 intuition, The Princeton their Licensing accumulated Group knowledge, Published andby Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 235 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON previous I make no CAMBRIDGE experience. claim to PUBLISHING being So learn a faith-healer, GROUP to be audacious but anyone in your who actions. knows anything about the power of mind knows the effects of emotionalized thinking upon the condition of the body, and what suggestion can do toward bringing disease as well as curing it. Some faith-healing movements such as Christian Science effect cures by denyi ng that the disease exists, and thousands attest to the validity of this method of healing. Followers of other schools of healing make no attempt to deny the di sease, but instead ignore it, affirming that they are basically well and happy a nd getting better every day. Members of the various schools of thought are the b est judges of the methods that work for them; but in all cases, the individuals b elief determines the success of the method of cure. However, it is interesting t hat Christian Science, which advocates denial, has a tremendous following, and i

Just ts membership how far suggestion continues can to increase cure disease by leaps and physical and bounds. ailments is still a matter of great controversy among the various schools of mental healing and members of the Copyright medical2010 profession. The Princeton But many Licensing thousands Group in Published our by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 236 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE country alone and PUBLISHING the number GROUP increases daily firmly believe that a cure of their It ailments has long came been asknown a result thatof fear, mental-healing. hate, and worry can lead to many bodily ills, even to fatal illnesses, although some members of the medical profession still r efuse to acknowledge this. Yet as early as February 19, 1945, a Life Magazine ar ticle entitled Psychosomatic Medicine, declared that during the war, 40 percent of all Army disability cases were found to originate from psychosomatic causes. Th e article pointed out that many cases of hay fever, bronchial asthma, heart dise ase, high blood pressure, rheumatic disease, arthritis, diabetes mellitus, the c ommon cold, and various skin conditions such as warts, hives, and allergic react ions were caused either by emotional upsets directly or by physical disturbances in which the emotions were an aggravating factor. Psychosomatic refers to a combi nation of mind and body ailments brought on by emotions; the prescribed remedy i s a combination of medical treatment and psychotherapy that locates the source o f Copyright Because the emotional of the 2010 experiments disturbances The Princeton ofand the Licensing tries psychiatrists toGroup eradicate Published and psychoanalysis it. by Princeton in Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 237 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON years, recent CAMBRIDGE thePUBLISHING whole subject GROUP of both medical and mental treatment is probably due for a complete revision, with resulting mind-cures which may prove astoundi However, those who understand the science of psycho-therapeutics are fairly well ng. agreed that a cure does not come through the treatment of the healer nearly so much as from the patient himself. In other words, the suggestion no matter in wh at form the healer gives it (whether in accordance with the principles of psycho -therapeutics or in conjunction with some special religious belief) is in turn t ransmitted by autosuggestion to the patients own subconscious mind, where it beco mes effective. The following statement may invite criticism, but if a patient re fuses to believe in the healers suggestive appeals, the purpose is never accompli shed. The healer and the patient have to be en rapport to get results, and my th eory is that any person who understands the use of the power of suggestion could get the same results without the aid of a healer, provided he or she were suffi ciently strong and constant in their own convictions and suggestions. The same m irror technique, and the cards with suitable affirmations, can be used here too toCopyright great advantage. 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 238 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON The 1970s CAMBRIDGE saw a renewed PUBLISHING interest GROUPin telepathy or thought-transference, arising o ut of the experiments and investigations carried on in many colleges and univers ities, particularly those conducted under the direction of Dr. J. B. Rhine of Du ke University. Of course, Joseph Dunninger, the self-styled mentalist of the 195 0s, with his so-called feats of thought- projection and mind-reading, did much t o widen It has always popular struck discussion me oddof that themany subject. people who profess to believe in the Bible , in which there are countless stories of visions, clairvoyance, and telepathy, declare that today telepathy and kindred phenomena are not possible. The records of both the American and British Societies for Psychical Research are filled wi th case reports of telepathy, clairvoyance, and similar phenomena. But despite t he published reports of scientific findings, many people scoff at the idea that telepathy exists. Notwithstanding the general skepticism, some of the worlds greatest scientific th inkers have declared that telepathy is not only possible but is a faculty that m ost people can use when they understand it. In addition to the findings of both the Copyright American2010 and The British Princeton Societies Licensing for Psychical Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 239 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Research and the results PUBLISHING made GROUP public by Dr. Rhine, there are numerous books on t he subject. A few of the older and better-known ones are Mental Radio, by Upton Sinclair; Beyond the Senses, by Dr. Charles Francis Potter, the well-known New Y ork preacher; Thoughts Through Space, by Harold Sherman and famous explorer Sir

Hubert Wilkins; Telepathy, by Eileen Garrett; and Experimental Telepathy, by Ren e Warcollier, When the results Director of Dr.of Rhines the Institute experiments Metaphysique were first International made public,in many Paris. men rushe d into print to declare that the results could be laid to chance. Considerable t ime and money were spent in an effort to prove that telepathy was non-existent. Yet the experiments continued at Duke and at other leading universities. I often wondered why many opposing so-called scientific investigators do not try to pro ve that the phenomena exist instead of trying to prove the contrary; but here ag ain, I have a theory that belief is the miracle worker and this is partly substa ntiated by what Dr. Rhine himself said in his book on extrasensory perception. H e declared that satisfactory results were secured when the experimenters caught the Copyright spirit 2010 of the The thing Princeton in Licensing other words, Group while Published there was by Princeton enthusiasm, Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 240 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE spontaneous interest, PUBLISHING and the GROUP belief that it could be done. But the ability to t ransmit and receive weakened once the original novelty wore off. When students w ere called back later to continue their experiments in the course of their studi es, J. Dr. enthusiasm B. Rhinewas wrote lacking, an article and the in the results August not25, satisfactory. 1946 American Weekly magazine , captioned Scientific Evidence Man Has a Soul. Since his explanations deal direct ly with the subject matter of this book, I quote the article almost in full cour tesy of What has the science late Dr. to say Rhine, about andthe with soul? the For permission the answer of The to this American question, Weekly.2 we would naturally turn to psychology because it is literally the science of the soul. But here we have a surprise coming, for we find that the soul theory of man has bee n practically Most psychologists dropped will from even psychology smile tolerantly books andif lectures. one speaks of the mind itself as i f there were such a thing apart from the brain. Everything has to be physical to 2be Reprinted real, according by courtesy to the of the prevailing author, Dr. J. B. Rhine, and with the permission ofCopyright The American 2010Weekly. The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 241 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONany view; CAMBRIDGE thing non-physical PUBLISHING GROUP or spiritual, as the soul is supposed to be, theref ore simplysome However, has things to be dismissed occur nowas and pure then superstition. that just do not fit in at all with this physical view of man. For example, a person may awaken from a horrible dream in which a friend or relative is dying. The shocking picture turns out to be essent ially true and the timing about right, although the friend may be a thousand mil es away. The oddest feature of all this is that in some cases, the event perceiv ed may not occur until hours or days after the dream; yet it may have been accur atelyfirst The pictured thought and is, evenof experienced course, that in such considerable experiences detail. are mere coincidences. Not many people get beyond this first easy explanation, but fortunately a few have done so; and when one studies great numbers of these experiences, they lose all appearance of being accidental. The scientific thing to do, of course, was to se t to work to Obviously ifdiscover any of these what psychic might be behind experiences these showed happenings. that the mind has the power to reach Copyright out beyond 2010 The space Princeton and time, Licensing they would Group plainly Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 242 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON be transcending CAMBRIDGEphysical PUBLISHING law. GROUP The mind would then be demonstrated to be a spirit ual rather than a physical system. Here was a clue to the soul nothing more; but From it provided these psychic the necessary experiences lead tothe reliable ESP tests evidence. were derived. ESP is the abbreviation of extrasensory perception, which includes telepathy and clairvoyance, two diffe rent modes of acquiring knowledge without the use of the recognized sense organs such as the eyes and ears. In a typical telepathy test, the person tries to ide ntify which card or number or other symbol is being held in mind by another pers on who is, let us say, located in an adjoining room. In a clairvoyance test, on the other hand, it is the object itself, commonly a card, which the percipient t ries to perceive. In a word, telepathy is the ESP of the state of mind of anothe r person; At Duke University clairvoyance, in 1930, the ESP a small of angroup object. of psychologists began a series of ESP experiments of both types: telepathy and clairvoyance. This work was sponsored b y Copyright the great 2010 British Thepsychologist Princeton Licensing William Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 243 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE McDougall, FellowPUBLISHING of the Royal GROUP Society, who was at the time the head of the Depa rtment of Psychology at Duke. This work, carried out in what came to be called t

he Parapsychology Laboratory (para meaning the unusual, the exceptional, the unort hodox), was by Experiments had nobeen means done thehere first and ofthere, its kind. some even in universities, for as much as fifty years before. But there had been no systematic, consecutive experimenta tion following up the problems through the years, such as took place at Duke. Th at university was the first to offer a permanent haven to active research on psyc hic Parapsychology The problems. Laboratory found fresh confirmatory evidence of both types of ESP, telepathic and clairvoyant. They developed and standardized new tests, maki ng it easier to repeat the experiments. This had the effect of starting a moveme nt of ESP experimentation which spread to many other institutions here and abroa d. Elaborate precautions were taken to insure that no sensory cues were possible and Copyright that no2010 error The could Princeton affectLicensing the test Group results. Published The tests by Princeton were of such Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 244 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON a nature CAMBRIDGE that thePUBLISHING scores could GROUP be evaluated by standard and long- approved stati stical methods. It could be shown clearly that the scores made in the tests coul d not reasonably be accounted for, either by chance or by experimental weakness of anythe Once kind. experimenters were satisfied that the occurrence of ESP was soundly esta blished, they set to work on the vitally important question as to what relation that capacity had to the physical world. Do telepathy and clairvoyance operate s trictly under physical law? Or do they reach beyond the limits of physics as the Fortunately spontaneous it psychic was a simple experiences matterseem to test to do? ESP in relation to space. For example, we needed only to conduct tests with long distance between the cards and the pe rson trying to identify them by ESP, and compare the results with short-distance tests. Both telepathy and clairvoyance gave as good results at great distances as they did with small. Distance measured in yards, miles, or hundreds of miles simply did not matter in the operation of ESP, as far as the experiments went. F orCopyright that matter, 2010angles, The Princeton barriers, Licensing and other Group physical Published conditions by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 245 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON then, seemed What, CAMBRIDGE likewise about to PUBLISHING have no time? Weeffect GROUP on argued that success if space in the does ESP not tests. influence ESP, time shou ld not affect it either. The tests for ESP of the future, or precognition (proph ecy is a more familiar word), were easily derived from the regular ESP tests. Pe ople who could successfully identify cards extrasensorially at a distance were t hen asked to try to predict the order of the cards after the deck was shuffled. We found that they scored as well on decks of cards that were mechanically shuff led before checking as they did trying to identify the cards in the deck at the time. Moreover, they did as well at predicting the order of the cards ten days a head as for a two-day period. Length of time beyond the prediction and the check up following the shuffling made no more difference than had length of distance i n the earlier There was only experiments. one interpretation of these experiments possible namely, that the mind of man somehow transcends the space-time limitations of the physical world. As the experiments were confirmed by other research men and women in other labo ratories, Copyright the 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 246 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE conclusion becamePUBLISHING firmly established GROUP that the mind does indeed possess propertie s not belonging to physics as we know it. Since space and time are the surest in dications of what is physical, the mind must, therefore, be extraphysical or spi ritual in nature. And all we mean by the soup man is that the mind is non-physical or spiritual in character. The ESP experiments, then, have yielded evidence of the some To soul people in man.this will seem a very small beginning on the problem of the soul. Certainly we must not exaggerate the extent of the findings. Actually we have do ne little more than produce evidence for an elemental sort of soul theory. There is, of course, a great deal more to the religious concept of the soul than has been found in these researches. There are many great problems remaining. Is the soul capable of separation from the body? Can it survive bodily death? If it can and does, can discarnate souls have any contact with the living, or in any way influence them? What about the idea of a world-soul, or God? What about communic ation Copyright between 2010 souls, The Princeton especiallyLicensing the soul Group of manPublished and God? by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 247 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America

THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and These CAMBRIDGE many other PUBLISHING fundamental GROUP questions of religious doctrine remain untouched by anything thus far discussed in this article. All we have a right to conclude is that the physical concept of man which has increasingly prevailed in intelle ctual circles There is something since the how rise much, of we materialism do not know is now definitely thoroughly extraphysical disproved. about humans . There is an order of reality in human life not subject to the laws of time and But space. it is just as important, I think, to recognize, too, the tremendous possibili ties we cannot see. The soul-theory of man gives us much to build on in our furt her thinking on religious problems. We have now verified the essential foundatio n upon which the spiritual philosophy of man was originally erected. It remains for scientific inquiry to go on further to find out by the same methods all we c an about human personality, its nature and destiny in short, to take up the othe r greatwas There questions a time when of religion. experimental inquiry into the problems of religion would ha veCopyright met with 2010 vigorous The Princeton oppositionLicensing from orthodox Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 248 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE religious leaders. PUBLISHING Many conservatives GROUP would resent the intrusion of science into the domain of what they think should be pure faith. But a great many deeply rel igious men and women are eagerly reaching out for a more tangible sort of knowle dge regarding the human mind and all of its potentialities that lie far beyond o ur present knowledge. Surprisingly enough, it has been from orthodox science that we have met the main opposition. The scientific conservative especially fears any division in nature, any such dualism as that of soul and body--so much that he is likely to refuse to look at evidence which suggests such a duality. Such anxiety is quite groundl ess, for if, as we may now claim to know, man does have a soul as well as a body , bothdo They fundamentally interact; therefore, different, they thehave two something are still in common. some sense Twounified. things cannot aff ect each other if they differ in every single point. Therefore, there must be a world of hidden realities, probably neither physical nor mental as we know them, from which the manifestations of mind and body, the psychical and physical, ori ginally stem. This realm beyond mind and matter lies there almost as unknown as Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu the blishing All www.successmanual.com 249 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE American continents PUBLISHING were to Columbus, GROUP silently awaiting some fortunate explorer of the future. But he will have to be someone who, like the great Genoese sailor , was daring enough to question existing charts of knowledge and belief and put them I have tooften experimental attendedtest. seances at which the medium has refused to perform, declari ng that someone in the audience was a scoffer, a non- believer whose vibrations were creating a hostile atmosphere. The materialistic skeptic may laugh at this, but I have attended large meetings were one lone hecklers persistent hostility h as not only disrupted the audience but completely defeated the efforts of the sp I think that anyone who understands the vibratory theory of thought can see why eaker. unsympathetic vibrations can be monkey wrenches thrown into the machinery. Dr. R hine discovered in his psychokinesis tests that when a subject operated in the p resence of an observer who tried to distract them and depress their scoring, the results were always below expectancy. And, contrariwise, when the same subject performed alone or in the presence of neutral or sympathetic observers, the scor e Copyright of successes 2010 was The correspondingly Princeton Licensing high. Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 250 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON You have CAMBRIDGE only to read PUBLISHING the history GROUP of witchcraft, the story of voodoo medicine me n and hexers, and even the achievements of present-day mental-healers. There is un doubtedly some force at work which influences others even at a distance. The sug gestion first planted in the mind of the patient (or victim, as the case may be) doesnt account for the results especially in the absent-treatment method where t he patient may have no knowledge that the healer is working on them. Whether telep athy is involved Practically all of here theis great something electrical that scientists, has not yet including been established. Edison, Steinmetz, Tesla, and Marconi, were greatly interested in telepathy. Dr. Alexis Carrel not only believed in telepathy but declared that scientific men should study it, ju st as physiological phenomena are studied. After twenty years of investigation b

y its members, the secretary of the London Society for Psychical Research stated that telepathy is an actuality. Experiments at various colleges continue to pil e up amazing evidence of its existence. Yet many scientific men still refuse to accept the findings. Moreover, the number of laymen carrying on investigations o f their own is constantly growing, even though they are regarded in certain quar ters as being eccentric and somewhat gullible. I have often wondered if those wh o Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 251 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE belittle are really PUBLISHING being fair, GROUP both to themselves and those interested in the p henomena, especially when the research work may lead to greater discoveries than Many hitherto horsedreamed and dogpossible. fanciers, especially those who have these animals as pets ove r a period of years, stoutly maintain the existence of telepathy between the ani mals and themselves. There have been countless stories of telepathic phenomena a mong primitive people in all parts of the world. Long years ago, a business exec utive told me that he got rid of people who were taking up his time by simply re peating mentally, Its time for you to go. Leave now. Leave now. The visitor would s hortly get fidgety, look at their watch or get up from their chair, and soon be on their You can get way. the same results when visitors overstay their time in your home. Whe n you feel it is time for them to go, simply say to yourself, Go home now, go hom e now, go home now. You will find they glance around the room, looking for the cl ock and Some skeptics say, Guess will say its that about telepathy time wehas were nothing leaving. to do with this, that your fac ial Copyright expressions, 2010 The bodily Princeton movements, Licensing signs Group of nervousness Publishedor by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 252 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE weariness all warn PUBLISHING the visitor GROUP that it is time to leave. Experiment for yourself ; but take care that you give the visitor no outward sign, either by word or fac ial expression, that it is time to depart. You will find that at times, especial ly if the visitor is intent upon putting over a point or winning an argument, th is procedure will not work. But the moment there is a lull in the conversation, try A number it, and of years the results ago, Iwill had my astonish officeyou. on the second floor of a large building. Later, my firm moved up to the tenth floor. Often upon entering the elevator, I would say, Ten, please, to the operator, and then immediately begin thinking about how I used to work on the second floor. Time after time, the elevator operator who didnt know me or my earlier association, stopped at the second floor and then Aturned Pacific around Coastto clergyman look at who me. was a deep student of Mind Stuff told me that ever y time he wanted flowers in his church, he simply sent his thoughts out to membe rs of his congregation and someone would send flowers. Every memorial window in his church, he told me, came as a result of the mental suggestions he gave whene ver Copyright he felt 2010 the time The Princeton was Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 253 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON propitious In a radio CAMBRIDGE for another program PUBLISHING in April, window. GROUP 1945, Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews told of one of the mo st unusual coincidences on record. Just after the publication of one of his songs, an American songwriter discovered that the same piece of music, note for note, had been composed and published in Germany only a short time before. That the co mpositions were identical to the last note makes the story more unusual than the many cases reported of widely separated people who have had the same idea at th e same time. While living on the West Coast, I submitted an article to an easter n publication, only to receive a note from the editor saying hed just accepted an article embracing the same material from another writer living in the East. Eli sha Gray claimed that he had the idea of the telephone at the same time as Alexa nder Graham Bell. Independent simultaneous discovery often happens among writers , inventors, Even during the chemists, preparation engineers, of this and book, composers. when suggestions were being made for c hanges and additions, my agent and I were often surprised to learn that we both received similar ideas at almost identical times. The idea of using the identica l Copyright people as 2010 examples The Princeton came to usLicensing almost Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 254 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONon, Early simultaneously. CAMBRIDGE my publisher PUBLISHING suggested GROUPthat I expand the manuscript. I had been engage

d in additional research work for a week when my adviser sent me a letter statin g that he had suggested to the publisher the identical subject matter I had been working on. We found that the same thoughts had come to us at approximately the same time. Naturally, there is no way of knowing whether my adviser in New York caught Copyright my thoughts 2010 Theor Princeton whether Licensing I caught his Group IPublished merely report by Princeton the facts. Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 255 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CHAPTER WOMEN AS IDEAS AND CAMBRIDGE 8for THEthis SCIENCE PUBLISHING bookOF occurred BELIEF GROUP to me, I frequently thought of the many famous w omen who had used the power of belief. Once Ben Hur Lampman specifically suggest ed that Many women I write may not about realize them: they can use your science just as advantageously as me n, and you should be specific in your message to them. Once they understand and apply what you give, theyll find themselves in a position to turn the world figur atively upside down. If there were some way for women of all nationalities to un ite Women Copyright andare usesupreme this The 2010 science, egotists Princeton there when Licensing would they beget no the Group future Published idea wars. theyby can Princeton do Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 256 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE something, and that PUBLISHING idea becomes GROUPthoroughly imbedded in their consciousness, the y will stop at nothing to achieve their purpose. You know the old saying, The fem ale of the species is more deadly than the male. That is true, and once women und erstand their power and you can give them the clue they may actually run this wh ole world. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned, and once they are aroused and understand what they can accomplish, there will be no stopping them. Women are more versatile, more adaptable. Even though Napoleon declared that he made circumstances, most men are its victims, w hile It seems women toby metheir that todays very nature women ofhave thinking the means make of circumstances getting everything serve them. they set th eir minds to. Certainly, opportunities are all around them. In fact, never befor e in history was the world so open to women as it is today. Among those fields f ormerly restricted to men there are comparatively few in which women are not now represented. Today youll find women in science, the fine arts, journalism, publi city, and various branches of government, all working intelligently, with full k nowledge of their duties, and aware of their new opportunities and responsibilit Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu ies. blishing All www.successmanual.com 257 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON When I read CAMBRIDGE an article PUBLISHING by a woman GROUP complaining that American women dont get a brea k, it dawned on me that if todays women dont get a break, it is the fault of no on e but themselves. All they have to do is follow the examples of their sisters wh o have preceded Therefore, in the them following and made pages their I shall own breaks. give examples of women who have used t his us Let science realize with that great women effectiveness. are going to play a more vital part than ever in the a ffairs of the world. Even before World War II, American women, although they may not be aware of it, were in a position to have things pretty much their own way , for they actually controlled the wealth of this country! Statistics showed tha t of the countrys total wealth of approximately 300 billion dollars, about 70 per During cent, the or the war, huge women sumwelders, of 210 billions, women riveters, was in and the the possession Wacs, Waves, of women. and Spars, a ll had a taste of performing tasks heretofore handled only by men. To thousands of single girls and housewives who had never had an opportunity to do anything o utside Copyright the home, 2010 The those Princeton experiences Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 258 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON have should CAMBRIDGE pointed PUBLISHING out opportunities GROUP for taking a more active part in the world . As a former newspaper man, naturally I had to follow the feminist movement, and for nearly forty years I have seen the power of outstanding women. Many of the g reatest reforms in America have been the ideas of women; and women were the driv ing force behind the ideas. Mrs. R. E. Bondurant was active in womens work, chari ties, the inauguration of child labor laws, the building of homes and hospitals for delinquent girls, numerous legislative measures to further the interest of w omen and children, and public movements to aid the blind and other handicapped p eople. Her nationally known record of nearly forty years was outstanding, and at seventy-one, even though a partial cripple, she was just as enthusiastic as eve r and In herwas later seeking years, new Mrs. worlds Bondurant to conquer. was an ardent worker in the cause of the Chin

-Uppers, an organization consisting of blind, crippled, and otherwise partly dis abled men and women. In 1948, she planned to open a store where articles made by these people would be sold, with the cooperation of a number of business men. M rs. Copyright Bondurant 2010 told The mePrinceton that if Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 259 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE necessary, she was PUBLISHING going to pay GROUP the rent out of her own pocket, but that all the profit would go to the Chin-Uppers. I spent a Sunday afternoon with her in her sitting room among her books and flowers. A pair of crutches stood in a corner n ear the door. (Even at her advanced age, Mrs. Bondurant got around on trolley ca rs, buses, and in and out of automobiles without help.) We discussed at length t his matter There is no ofquestion believing, about andit. Mrs. I can Bondurant speak from said:a pretty full life of seventy-one years, during which time I not only raised a family, but have taken part in var ious movements and activities you have long been familiar with. There is certain ly something call it power, God, or anything you wish which is always there to s ustain us in time of need. I have never seen it fail. Weve just got to believe. W hen I look back through the years, I recall the fine women I was associated with when we were working for legislation to bring about better working conditions f or women and children. It was the indomitable spirit of these women, who thoroug hly believed in the righteousness of their cause, that made the legislation poss ible I Copyright amand astounded effective. 2010that The Princeton the average Licensing woman doesnt Group Published realize her by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 260 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE tremendous power.PUBLISHING I dont call GROUP it stupidity, because I would never admit that wome n are stupid. Rather, they lack interest. In talking to womens groups, I am amaze d that many of them never knew that these great reform movements to help them we re initiated by women. Once women become aware of their strength and power, they can do more to bring about lasting peace and make this world a better place tha n allthe All thegreat famous forward male warriors movements, andall would-be the great peacemakers. things in this world, have been do ne by men and women who were dreamers and believers in their dreams coming true. They could not have accomplished things otherwise. Its like the old story about climbing to the top of the mountain in search of that indefinable something. It makes no difference from which side the approach is made those who steadfastly c limb reach the top. So it is with this matter of believing. It isnt so much what the real or imaginary object of our belief may be, its the belief and following t hrough I dont that want makes to appear the thing critical, possible. but people dont have sufficient action or driving f orce behind their beliefs. For example, some womens organizations will pass resol utions Copyright in favor 2010of The orPrinceton against this Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 261 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON and that, CAMBRIDGE and think PUBLISHING that settles GROUPthe matter. The resolutions are no good unless the sentiments expressed are actually brought to the attention of the powers tha t be. I dont know of any greater thing in life than the satisfaction that comes through serving. During the many years I spent in sponsoring various causes and getting legislation adopted, I never received a penny to cover my expenses. While it may sound like Pollyanna business to many people, bread tossed upon the waters does come back. In illustration, I might tell you that during the Depression my husb and lost $80,000. He was sick in bed at home, and I would go to the office daily to get the mail and check the routine. Sometimes it looked as if we wouldnt have money to meet imperative needs, but just when we had to meet the obligations, c hecks would appear in the mail from people to whom Mr. Bondurant had lent money or from long-overdue accounts. We had some pretty hard times, but help always ca me I As through listened just toin Mrs. time, Bondurant, and I never I realized lost mythat belief. I was in the presence of no ord inary Copyright woman,2010 but The rather Princeton of a human Licensing dynamoGroup who had Published the great by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 262 Rights Group Reserved. 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he with the beautiful singing voice, won her success in the face of difficulties that would have stopped some of the strongest men. As a child, she dreamed of b ecoming a great opera singer. The little girl went out to win the hearts of peop le everywhere. Even as a penniless runaway in New York, where often she had to s ing for her supper in small Greenwich Village cafes, Grace Moore never lost her courage. She made her debut at seventeen and was close to the zenith of her care er at forty-five. Again and again when she appeared hopelessly defeated, she, wi th unquenchable courage, emerged victorious. When she lost her voice and a throa t specialist told her she would never sing again, she put up a tremendous battle and Copyright emerged2010 fromThe a years Princeton rest,Licensing singing more Group beautifully Published by than Princeton ever. Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 263 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON Her glorious CAMBRIDGE voice PUBLISHING brought her GROUP great fame, and up to the time of her death in an airplane crash in Copenhagen in 1947, Grace Moore continued to believe in her d reams. She was one of the few stars who believed in helping other talented peopl e to achieve their objectives, and her timely aid assisted many unknown aspiring singers. When one of her protegees, who had achieved success, became temperamenta l about her part in a performance, Miss Moore passed along another famous singers advice: that to great artists, there was no such thing as a small part; and to small Wilkinson, Ellen artists, there the fiery were no British big parts. Minister of Education, was a tiny, red-haired woman who drove her way upward through her persistence. Less than five feet tal l, she was never cowed by the biggest of the British leaders. It is said that sh e made a career of annoyance, first as a school teacher, than as a suffragist, n ovelist, newspaper writer, and finally cabinet minister. Someone said of her tha t no woman in the whole of Britain had been more active, more persistent, or mor e annoying. She was pleased! Probably her greatest contribution was her campaign to raise the age of leaving school from fourteen to fifteen. She won this fight in the face of stiff opposition of fellow ministers and the great demand for yo uth Copyright in 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 264 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON British From the CAMBRIDGE industry. time of Cleopatra, PUBLISHING thousands GROUP of women, relying on their inmost convicti ons, have shaped the lives of millions. It may not be historically correct that behind every great ruler was a woman, but certainly women have had very much of a guiding One was Eugenia hand in dehistory-making, Montijo, who married achieving Napoleon success thethrough Third. When theirabeliefs. small child i n Spain, she had fallen against a banister and bruised her body. Her gypsy nurse told her not to cry, that she would be a queen and live to be a hundred. She be lieved in gypsies, and her fortune materialized nearly as prophesied. She became Empress Eugenia and lived until she was ninety-four, just six years less than t he age Marie Madame fixed Curie by herwas gypsy thenurse. co-discoverer of radium. As a child in Warsaw, Marja Sklodowska (later to be known as Madame Curie) was running to join a group of pl aymates when an old gypsy woman stopped her, demanding that the girl show her ha nd. The other children did not want Marja to listen to the gypsy, but the gypsy woman held on to the little hand, excitedly commenting on the remarkable lines i n Copyright her palm and 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 265 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON telling The desire CAMBRIDGE theto child discover PUBLISHING she would what lay GROUP be famous. behind that strange phenomenon known as radioact ivity, literally drove Professor Pierre Curie and his wife Marie to the epochal discovery of radium. Perhaps history will never know whether the old gypsy fortu ne-teller inspired Madame Curies career. But that conclusion would appear obvious , for early in her girlhood Madame Curie made up her mind to become a scientist. She was refused permission to study science at the University of Cracow (the se cretary told her that women should not concern themselves with science and sugge sted that she enter cookery classes). She went to Paris and entered the Sorbonne , supporting herself by teaching and working in the laboratories. There she met Pierre Curie and, once embarked with him on the task of tracking down at least o ne source of radioactivity, nothing stopped her. She had two daughters, a househ old to manage, as well as the problem of ill health, but she refused to give up laboratory work, even when her husband begged her to. Few women have been so gre

atly honored as Madame Curie, who certainly made those childhood prophecies come Perhaps true. Copyright one 2010 of the The strangest Princeton stories Licensing proving Group the Published great power by Princeton in Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 266 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE believing, is found PUBLISHING in that of GROUP Opal Whiteley. This astounding historical case cl early shows that (as Professor William James pointed out) belief creates its ver ification in fact; and affords unmistakable proof that often events are influenc ed by our very great desires. According to those who knew her in her childhood, the girl was the daughter of an American family named Whiteley, headed by an Ore gon logger. She, however, believed herself to be the daughter of Henri dOrleans, heir to the Bourbon claim to the Crown of France. She was credited with having w ritten a diary when she was six or seven years old, which told about her angel fat her and angel mother of royal blood. Printed in 1920 under the auspices of the Atl antic Monthly, it created a sensation and precipitated a huge literary controver sy that drew in psychologists, scientists, astrologers, psychics, editors, clerg ymen, In Alfred literary Powers critics, History and ofalmost Oregonevery Literature, person there who had isknown a chapter Opal by at Elbert any time. Bede, in which he says, I havent the least doubt that a large part of Opals diary is a h oax and a large part plagiarism, and I have presented facts that show the foster parentage claim impossible. But even though Opal Whiteley may not have been born of Copyright royalty,2010 she The was Princeton actually accepted Licensing asGroup Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 267 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON such The diary inCAMBRIDGE later was printed years. PUBLISHING when Opal GROUP was about twenty-two years of age. In 1933, some thirteen years after, newspapers carried a story about an American woman travel ing in India. While in the state of Udaipur, she had a remarkable experience. Si tting in her carriage, she was astounded to see another carriage, coming toward her, led by a half troop of cavalry. In the other carriage was Opal Whiteley, th e girl from the logging camp of Oregon. Investigators later disclosed that Opal Whiteley was actually residing in the household of the Maharaja of Udaipur, the ruling Indian prince. The same newspaper stories told how Ellery Sedgwick (edito r of the Atlantic Monthly when her diary was printed) verified that the girl was actually residing in the royal household. They further related that Mr. Sedgwic k had received substantiation of this story from the secretaries of two maharajas courts. In his book, The Happy Profession, Mr. Sedgwick devotes a chapter to th ishave I strange had several tale. talks with Mr. Bede (for many years a well-known Oregon newsp aper man, who became editor of the Oregon Mason) regarding the remarkable way Op alCopyright molded her 2010 destiny. The Princeton Bede said Licensing to me, It Group wasPublished by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 268 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE uncanny, almost supernatural, PUBLISHING GROUP the way circumstances suited themselves to her pla Like most people who knew the girl in her childhood, Bede is absolutely convince ns. d that Opal was born of American parents, the Whitleys. He had known her quite we ll, first My and she knowledge had frequently of Opalbeen camein when hisIhome was reporting in CottageaGrove: Junior Christian Endeavor convention in Cottage Grove, and I was informed that a seventeen-year-old girl f rom a nearby logging camp had been elected president. On first impression, Opal was a vibrant, fluttery, exotic, whimsical person, informed strangely beyond her years, eager, deeply earnest, and seriously religious. She later became to me a n inexplicable She was alwaysenigma. planning well in advance anything she would undertake. In preparat ionwas it of most her nature amazing book, how she The solicited Fairyland contributions Around Us, from such persons as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and actually got money from some of them. A le aflet Copyright advertising 2010 The thePrinceton book carried Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 269 Rights Group Reserved. 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the thought to Mr. Sedgwick. I did not discuss this point with Mr. Bede, but if Opal Whiteley knew how mentally to transmit her thoughts to others in advance, t hen years For it explains I havehow been Mr. convinced Sedgwickthat happened people close to askto ifnature she had and kept those a diary. intimately associated with wild and domesticated animals have an understanding or insight that Copyright lets them 2010 see The far Princeton beyond the Licensing horizons Group of most Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 270 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON who live CAMBRIDGE in city penthouses. PUBLISHING GROUP I have always believed that to these people, Nature reveals many secrets withheld from those who never get nearer to a cow than a m ilk bottle. Is telepathy, the ability to transmit our thoughts silently so that others catch them, one of the secrets Nature reveals to those close to her? That is something I cannot answer, although it is common knowledge that primitive pe ople in all quarters of the world have used the secret of telepathy for centurie s. There are numerous books on telepathy among primitives; as a famous editor on ce said to me, To accept the idea that these natives dont use it would put us in t he volume Now, A class let me of would the hardly recount uninformed. what suffice Mr. Bede to summarize had to saythe about personality Opals closeness of the nature-tutored to nature: child, who had at the age of six as her diary would have us believe confided her most intimate secrets to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael (a fir tree), and whose associates instead of people were Lars Porsena of Clusium (a crow), Thomas Chatt erton Jupiter Zeus (a wood rat), Brave Horatius (a shepherd dog), Peter Paul Rub ens Copyright (a pet pig), 2010 The and Princeton other characters Licensing with Group equally Published classical by Princeton appellations. Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 271 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON In herCAMBRIDGE adolescent PUBLISHING years, Opal GROUP gathered geological specimens by the barrel, and bu gs and worms by the thousands. She garnered chrysalises by the bucketful and wat ched how God restored life to his fairies of the great outdoors. Somewhere, some how, she gained a prodigious amount of knowledge about these things. Without hav ing completed a high school course, this mysterious girl presented herself at th e University of Oregon, where entrance requirements were waived because of her k nowledge of According togeology, Bede andastronomy, others whoand knew biology. Opal as a girl, no one ever mentioned anyt hing that would indicate that the Whitleys had adopted her. Bede says that only w ith the publication of the diary in the Atlantic Monthly did relatives and frien ds receive the first intimation that Opal claimed foster-parentage. Mr. Bede tol d me that what Mr. Whiteley (Opals real or foster father) thought was that his dau ghter had Shortly after been her caught diaryin was the printed, meshes Opal of some Whiteley wily promoters. left the United States very s ecretly, Copyright traveling 2010 The with Princeton a confidential Licensing document Group Published not an by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 272 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE ordinary passportPUBLISHING signed by GROUP our Secretary of State and Sir Edward Grey of the Br itish Foreign Office. Just how she was able to do this amazes Mr. Bede and other s who knew her in childhood. But if she was the bona fide daughter of American p arents and not of Indian royal blood, we obviously have here evidences of the wo rkings of the strange powers of the human mind, of which (I repeat!) we know lit In 1947, Opal Whiteley was reported to be living in England. But when Mr. Bede w tle. rote his article a number of years ago, he said, When last definitely heard of, s he had been accepted as a princess of India, through an alleged marriage of Henr i dOrleans, the angel father of the diary. I asked him how Opal had been accepted as a princess of India, if she was not in fact born one. He said he couldnt explain it. Then I asked him if he thought her constant thinking so her very deep belie f had anything to do with it, to which he replied, Frankly, I do not know. It may be, for we havent probed to the depths of the mind and dont know the extent of it s powers. Reading Mr. Sedgwicks own story of this strange girl, he also appears convinced t hat Copyright Opals real 2010parents The Princeton were the Licensing Whitleys, Group andPublished that her by claim Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 273 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON of being CAMBRIDGE of royalPUBLISHING blood was pure GROUPfantasy. But she was accepted by royalty, becau se Opal obviously knew a lot of secrets unknown to the average person. Here, in his own words, is Sedgwicks theory of how this child from Oregon made her vision come I have true: a theory and hold to it. Among an infinity of letters came one written by an American of French parentage, whose father, he told me, was a sergeant in the

Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The colonel or perhaps the general of this sergean ts division was Prince Henry of Bourbon. Toward the close of his life the Prince, traveling across America, stopped in Oregon to chat with his old soldier. Wheth er or not this is fact, I cannot say, but my correspondent had no doubt of it: f irst among his childhood memories, was the princes arrival at his fathers cottage door. according Now, I sat on to hismy knee, theory, he the toldvisit me, and of a I Prince believed ofhim. the Blood to an Oregon haml et was an event. The truth and the legend of it spread through the lumber camps. What is more likely than that such a tale captivated the mind of a lonely and i maginative child, and that her daydreams centered about it? At the heart of ever y Copyright little girl, 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 274 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Cinderella sits enthroned. PUBLISHINGWith GROUP Opal, the legend grew to be true. The truth magn ified with the years, and finally permeated her entire mind, her fancy, and her life. Such is my theory of Opals childhood. In after years, the story becomes an attested record of fact and yet, to my thinking, loses nothing of its wonder the reby. Opal, who had come to be petted and patronized by many notable people in N ew York and Washington grew sick of it all. She went to England, always making f riends, took up the faith of her father, and established herself in a Catholic com munityone Then at day Oxford. I had startling news of her. A friend of my youth, Mrs. Rostra Emmet Sherwood, wrote me asking if it was possible to believe a correspondent of hers who stated that she had seen Opal sitting like the princess in the story in an open barouche driving in state down the streets of Allahabad, royal outriders cl earing the way for H.R.H. Mile. Franchise de Bourbon! The story was credible, fo r it was true I verified it beyond conjecture! First I wrote to Opal, who sent m e a collection of photographs of her Indian tour. There she was, perched in a ho wdah on an elephants back, ready for a tiger hunt. (Henri de Bourbon was famous f orCopyright his bag of 2010 thirty-six The Princeton tigers, Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 275 Rights Group Reserved. 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The wander of all this had not subsided when an unsolicited letter arrived from a lieutenant colonel of His Majestys forces occupied with maneuvers at Aldershot, informing me with some asperity that the colonel himself had been honored by an order to attend an official garden party given for Her Royal High ness entertainment. Further, he begged to ask who had questioned the authenticity I ofclose the lady thiswho account had graced on a melancholy the occasion. note. In the journal Opal sent to accompany her photographs, no vestige remained of the contagious fascination of an earlier day. Copyright She described 2010 Thethings Princeton as they Licensing are. The Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 276 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON dew of the CAMBRIDGE morning PUBLISHING had vanished. GROUPThe hard sunlight of middle age beat down upon a world that everybody sees only too clearly. The fairy kingdom was now the play ground of other children. Its gates were closed, and Opal stood outside. But whi le she was still the Opal of the Journal of an Understanding Heart, she had had her vision, and the vision was true. No truth is more certain than that which br ightens Some readers the heart may question of childhood.3 this weird story, but those are the facts. Obviously, as Sedgwick states, The child who wrote Opals diary believed in it. She knew it fo r herearly From own.Biblical times, there have been prophets, oracles, soothsayers, astro logers, and fortune-tellers. As a hard-boiled newspaper man, I have investigated a number of so-called seers. While some were obviously charlatans of the first water, others mystified me. Certainly many of these fortune-tellers believe in t heir ability to foretell the future. Materialists will say that that is impossib le. Having spent years in research work, I am not so positive, for some of the g

277 reat 3 From Copyright prophecies The Happy 2010of Profession The the Princeton past by have Ellery Sedgwick. Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON actually Even though CAMBRIDGE been many fulfilled. PUBLISHING deride the ability GROUP of astrologers, fortunetellers, and the like , millions of people in this world believe in prophecies, including some of our greatest financiers, statesmen, actors and actresses, and people in all walks of life. No matter what my views about the ability of anyone to foretell the futur e, I have long thought that it wasnt so much what the prophets foretold as it was the subjects reliance on what the soothsayer predicted for them that brought cer tain things to pass. In other words, the seer planted a suggestion in the form o f a prophecy in the individuals subconscious mind, which immediately went to work to make it come true. I believe that in the cases I have cited, the power of su ggestion, working in the individual to make the prophecy a reality, finally prod uced the Marie Dressler, outcome. the silent screen actress, probably evoked more laughter than an y other actress of her time. Those who saw her in Tillies Nightmare, and Tugboat Annie, will never forget that great personality. But Marie Dressier had a very h ard time, suffering many privations before she became a screen star known to mil lions. Copyright Whether 2010 true Theor Princeton not, I have Licensing heard Group that the Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 278 Rights Group Reserved. 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I heard her on the radio one night and knew instantly that she had a grip on that something which many people seek and seldom find. It is common knowledge that very few great screen stars personally acknowledge letters from u nknowns. But I knew if I wrote Miss Dressler, I would get a reply. When I dictat ed the letter, my secretary volunteered that Marie Dressler would never acknowle dge it. While I felt We even that made Miss a Dressler small wager, would asrespond I did later immediately, with several I wasothers. astounded at th e Copyright sight of her 2010 enclosure The Princeton a check Licensing for twenty Groupcopies Published of my by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 279 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON you brochure. Thank CAMBRIDGE In soher much. PUBLISHING letter Oh! what she said: GROUP a book, if used rightly. As I read through it and loo k back, which I very seldom do, and check up on my own life it looks as though I Now hadthat beenthis going great downwoman the right is long path. dead, her letter is among my cherished possess ions. I never had personal correspondence with a woman who had put so much heart and soul into her work to cheer up humanity, yet who had had more personal trou ble or who hadthere Incidentally, put up are a two greater finefight thoughts to reach in her the letter. pinnacle First, of success. it is futile to dwell on the past. It is apparent Miss Dressier discovered this a number of year s before her death, realizing that she couldnt give full thought to future accomp lishments Second, asif she she indicated cluttered inup ordering her mind extra withcopies thoughts of my of brochure, the past. she was always trying Copyright to help 2010people. 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As many reade rs may know, Swedenborg lived in the early days of the eighteenth century and wa s a very unusual man, perhaps one of the worlds greatest mystics. He too, could f oresee the future, anticipating the submarine, the machine gun, flying machines, and the horseless carriage that would go twenty miles an hour. I dont know wheth er Swedenborg could be called a spiritualist, but he certainly had something far

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Although she was ridiculed by many people professional and unprof essional, Sister Kenny persistently, forcefully brought her principles of treatm ent to the American publics attention and through her efforts established the Sis ter has One Kenny only Institute to study ataMinneapolis. photograph of Sister Kennys rugged features to see the re flection of a powerful mind, which aided by a ready tongue ultimately help her f orce her way to victory. In her native Australia she was fought at every turn, a nd only through the womans sheer persistence did the American medical profession finally Few women give have her been recognition. the subject of more controversy. From what one reads about S ister Copyright Kenny,2010 she The was Princeton convinced Licensing to the nthGroup degree Published that herby Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 282 Rights Group Reserved. 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A pproximately 2,600 navy officers learned navigation from Mrs. Converse. She taug ht them Whos Who inlists the dining biographical room ofsketches her Denver of outstanding home! women in business and the pro fessions, including a number of executives making more than $150,000 a year. But our history recognizes no greater business woman than Lydia E. Pinkham. Her nam e Copyright may not be2010 so well The Princeton known today Licensing as in Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 283 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONbut 1900, CAMBRIDGE the business PUBLISHING she established GROUP and its product, Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, became household words. From a single idea, she built a huge business that I know brought nothing a about returnthe of efficacy millions.of Mrs. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, but as a b oy I can remember often seeing a bottle of it in the family medicine chest. Mrs. Pinkham and her business associates really modernized advertising, for she was one of the greatest of all advertisers. Ideas used in many later advertisements were originally voiced by Mrs. Pinkham. With much of her advertising she tied in a sort of homely philosophy embodying emotional appeals to women, which resulte d in millions of dollars in sales of her vegetable compound and brought tons of enthusiastic Once more, this testimonials remarkableto woman her demonstrated laboratory atwhat Lynn, belief Massachusetts. in personal achievemen t can accomplish. During Lydia Pinkhams early life, many people were interested i n the manufacture of home remedies, and she, too, started making her compound in her kitchen. 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Her tremendous driving force and enthusiasm reached and engulfed No every bookmember documenting of herthe family great power especially of believing after her would business be complete really without got going! menti on of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, another New England woman who built up that huge rel igious organization known as Christian Science. As almost everyone knows, Mrs. E ddy was faced with discouragement, strife, and the bitterest ridicule. But after

she gave to the world her Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, based on the writings of Phineas P. Quimby, she began to develop powerful leadership, a tremendous and unshaken belief in her teachings, and a dynamic personality whi ch has left its imprint upon millions throughout the world. Few writings have do ne so much to influence the sciences of medicine and theology as hers. Christian The Science Copyright worldis will another 2010 always Thepractical Princeton be indebted demonstration Licensing to Florence Group ofNightingale, the power by Published ofwho believing. Princeton was Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 285 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE greatly instrumental PUBLISHING in saving GROUP the lives of thousands and brought the nursing pr ofession to the high standard now recognized by the entire world. Here again is a woman who knew early in life what she wanted and who set out to realize her am bition. She came from one of the richest families in England, but was born with a passion to nurse the wounded and the sick. At the time she undertook her great work, nursing was not even recognized as a profession. She started in by scrubb ing the corridor floor at the Fliedner Nursing School in Germany. She soon showe d that she could not only scrub floors but bind wounds, and revive patients hopes with her encouraging talk. She, too, was fought at every turn, but being inspir ed with the vision of the destiny which she thought was hers, obstacles meant no thing to her. She hated bigots, believing that all should be cared for, regardle ss of faith, During the Crimean color,War, or creed, the British and she War had Office a quick scoffed tongue that when Florence aroused. Nightingales work would only result in failure. Reluctantly they let the madcap have her own w ay. At her own expense, she organized a private expedition of nurses and took th em to Scutari. Even though the officers in charge of the hospital there wanted n o Copyright woman to interfere 2010 The Princeton with theirLicensing work, Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 286 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE interfere she did. PUBLISHING Under herGROUP leadership, the women took over the handling of the hospital. Throughout her stay in the Crimea, her iron will constantly fought ag ainst a stone wall of opposition. Some of the most powerful statesmen of Great B ritain ridiculed this astonishing womans work and did everything possible to stop her reforms. But her letters, filled with dynamite, awakened her countrymen until she was adored everywhere. Something had to give way, and this time it was the stone at When, wall. the age of eighty-two, she became sick, her nurse tucked her into bed, only to have Florence Nightingale get out of her own bed and tuck in her nurse. At the age of ninety, just before she died, a friend asked her if she knew where she was. She replied, I am watching at the altar of murdered men and I shall be fighting When we think theirof cause. martyrs, most people have in mind men who have died or been jai led for espousing causes in which they believed. 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Aided by some of her followers, Mrs. Nation succeeded in closing many illicit bar-roo ms by public prayer and denunciation. When she saw this method was slow in its e ffectiveness, she took to wielding a hatchet, smashing bottles and beer kegs and demolishing bar fixtures. She was constantly ridiculed and frequently jailed, b ut so thoroughly was she convinced of the righteousness of her cause that she gl adlylegendary The accepted actress her sentences. Sarah Bernhardt had the temper of a tigress, yet history r ecords her as one of the greatest emotional actresses of all times. She suffered innumerable failures in her early days on the stage, but she had a passion to m ake good, and by the time she was twenty-four she was famous. A woman who smoked cigars and drank strong drinks, she was a creature of extraordinary moods. An i ndividualist in the highest sense, she would visit cemeteries and sit on tombsto nes as if in grief for the departed and later took to sleeping in a coffin. 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Her heart was torn many times, but even in the face of overwhelming odds, Madame Schumann-Hein k always came smiling through. Here was a woman whose oldest son had gone off in World War I to fight for the Kaiser, while her other four boys were in the oppo site trenches. But among those who heard her sing The Star- Spangled Banner in her quaint, foreign accent, many took off their hats and wept. Over a national radi o hookup, her voice became known to millions. She was beloved by everyone and sh e had that basic thing born in most people but seldom aroused the spirit of neve r Copyright quitting. 2010 It was The atPrinceton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 289 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON the ageCAMBRIDGE of seventy-two, PUBLISHING whenGROUP she was signed up as a successor to Marie Dressier, Who that has the heard curtain Marian rang Andersons down on this wonderful great contralto performer.voice without being charmed an d deeply moved? Yet few realize this great artists very humble background. As a c hild of six she wanted a violin; at the time, she could earn five or ten cents b y scrubbing doorsteps in Philadelphia. If ever a woman believed in her dreams an d made them come true, it was Marian Anderson; she climbed to world fame and yet had to overcome especially in our country many handicaps and prejudices. Her tr iumph is one of the most dramatic in musical history. In Washington, D.C., on Ea ster Sunday 1939, this black woman of humble origin, standing before the Lincoln Memorial, thrilled an audience of 75,000 people studded with cabinet members, s enators, congressmen, and famous people in business and society. I am convinced that Marian Anderson, too, succeeded through her belief, and that the great sour ce of Let meher introduce inspiration here a came well-known from herwoman subconscious who tells mind. how her subconscious mind was directly Copyright responsible 2010 The Princeton for her success. Licensing Angela Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 290 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Lansbury, the Tony PUBLISHING Award winning GROUPactress of stage and screen, was interviewed by The Mildred brilliant Mesirow young forscreen Reach star, Magazine. aside The from interviewer having beauty tellsand us:dramatic ability, Angela Lansbury, was also a girl with an exceptionally good brain. During a rest interval here [Hollywood] she launched forth upon one of her favorite themes he r faith Ah, she inamended her ownquickly, destiny I . .think . perhaps Ive phrased that badly. I Dont mean anything magical or occult. Perhaps faith in the power of the subconscious mind would be In Exactly! a better the manner way that Not of ofsaying Tennyson, I think it. my perhaps, abilities or in Stevenson? any way resemble I suggested. their genius, you unde rstand. But I think Ive learned how to tap the resources of the subconscious. Eve ryone knows that the subconscious mind stores all sorts of abilities, memories, and aptitudes we dont ordinarily utilize . . . What Im trying to say is that, when youve Copyright learned 2010how Theto Princeton draw on Licensing your subconscious Group Published powers, by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 291 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON has theres Angela CAMBRIDGE really schooled noPUBLISHING limit herself to what GROUP in the youtechnique can accomplish. of this self-suggestion. Since she first chose acting as a career, she had constantly held in her mind a picture of what she aspires to achieve. From time to time she has even written down the go als she wants to reach. Obviously, she has tapped the reservoirs of creative mat erial which few of us know how to use. Within the subconscious lie the materials of genius itself; of powers which, when properly recognized, may burst into the And Heavens! mental howfield do I dont you ofgo activity want about totapping in patterns sound stuffy your subconscious which and highbrow, surpassmind? our butconscious its I asked. really abilities. awfully simple. I f you tell yourself over and over again that theres no limit to the creative powe r within you, thats about all there is to it. Honestly, I believe thats true. What ever intelligence or creative force, or whatever it is, that resides in the worl

d is like . . . she waved a strong, beautiful hand expressively oh, like light or air, Copyright or something 2010 The of Princeton that sort.Licensing It doesnt Group belong Published to me, by especially. PrincetonIts Cambridge there,Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 292 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON to This be isnt tapped CAMBRIDGE aand cut-and-dried PUBLISHINGby expressed GROUP formula anyonefor whosuccess knows how by any to get means, at it. she continued. It doesnt let you off hard work. Youve got to keep plugging like mad, perfecting whatever k ind of expression youve got; adding constantly to your skill, whether its in actin g or painting, or even making a dress. So that, when the chance for self-express ion does come, when the time arrives for you to call on your subconscious power to express itself, you have a good set of tools for it to work with; a proper me dium through which your creative urge can be portrayed . . . Catch on? she added withthat! About Oh typical theWell, suggestibility humor. when youre ofabout the subconscious? to drop off toIsleep, prompted. just tell yourself that tomo rrows the day youve got to surpass anything you did today. That, whatever demands are made upon you, all your abilities, all youve learned, perhaps things youve for gotten you Bearing inever mindknew an actual all mental these will picture be available of the situation to you .is . even . better. If youre scheduled Copyrightto 2010 do The a screen Princeton test,Licensing for example, Group you Published see by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 293 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE yourself acting out PUBLISHING that test GROUP better than anyones ever done it before. Act it lik e mad in your mind! Be Duse; be Bernhardt! In your mental picture, be the best t here is! And when the actual test comes off, you find, often to your surprise, t hat youre The subconscious acting is better a pretty than dramatic you know factor how. in personality, I believe. It likes to act and sing and paint and express itself. It likes to surpass in anything its called on to do. Your responsibility is to equip it with tools for expression, to give Many famous it awomen, chance, including and thenthe make Bronte it ansisters, ally behind Elizabeth the scenes. Browning, Susan B. An thony, Evangeline Booth, Jane Addams, attained niches in the hall of fame. Uncle Toms Cabin, which many claim brought on the War Between the States, was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a wisp of a woman whose name will be remembered as lon g as there is American history. In 1850 Mrs. Stowe swore a solemn oath that she would write something that would make the whole nation feel what an accursed thin g Copyright slavery is. 2010 For The two Princeton months she Licensing tried in Group vainPublished to think by of Princeton a story. In Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 294 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE February, 1851, while PUBLISHING she was GROUP attending communion service at the college church, there came to her mind the picture of Uncle Tom and of his death. Mrs. Stowe we nt home in tears and when she had written out the scene of Uncle Toms death and r ead did She it to a great her family, deal of they, research too, in were trying weeping. to secure factual material, but when she actually sat down to write, she needed none of it. The story obsessed her an d literally wrote itself. Out of her subconscious mind surged long-forgotten mem ories and photographic impressions, arranging themselves almost automatically in proper sequence on paper. Mrs. Stowe didnt think out these incidents and their b ackground, she actually saw them. To her dying day, Mrs. Stowe insisted that God , and not she, had written this book. While little was known of the subconscious While mind it in is hertoo time early it is toobvious tell the that complete it wasstory, the source thereof are this three novel. women whose na mes will probably go down in history as having shaped the destinies of millions of Chinese. These are the famous Soong sisters, perhaps the best known of whom i s Madame Chiang Kai-shek; the others married respectively Dr. H. H. Kung and Dr. Sun Copyright Yat-sen, 2010 both The Chinese Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 295 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON As leaders. we come CAMBRIDGE down to PUBLISHING the present GROUP day, we run across such people as Mrs. Matthew As tor Wilks, one of the richest women in the world and the daughter of the late He tty Green who herself amassed a fortune of over $67,000,000. Mrs. Wilks followed The in account the footsteps of Vera ofNyman her famous is literally mother.another story of rags to riches. An idea, fifteen dollars, and a bathtub put her into a business for which Mrs. Nyman onc e refused a million dollars. When she married her husband, Bernard, in 1920, she had the belief that she and her husband were going to make a million dollars. M rs. Nyman rang doorbells selling a liquid cleaner and later, by cooking chemical stews night after night in her own home, hit upon a combination of ingredients that would clean 90 percent of painted surfaces. Her product became known to mil

lions of housewives and in 1947 alone, her sales topped $2,500,000. Mrs. Nyman, who day after day of making personal calls encountered more than 50,000 housewiv es, knew what it meant to face discouragement. But her belief that she would ult imately make a million dollars never faltered. It took her twenty-seven years to achieve Copyright her2010 objective, The Princeton but sheLicensing had it within Groupher Published grasp by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 296 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON when Success a drug CAMBRIDGE stories concern embrace PUBLISHING offered dozens GROUP her of $1,000,000 women, such foras her Mary plant. Dillon, president of the B rooklyn Borough Gas Company, who started in as a six- dollar-a-week office helpe r in the $5,000,000 corporation which she came to head. Before World War I, Mrs. Ora H. Snyder of Chicago, with a capital of only five cents, began building up a candy business centered around several shops and which was, at one time, worth For more a number than a of million yearsdollars. Bertha Brainard was program director of the National Broad casting System. With a salary that ran into five figures; she was said to be one of the highest paid women radio executives. It all came about through her getti ng an idea for feature radio programs. That was in 1922 and her first effort bro ught her a return of $50. Indeed an entire book could be written about women who have achieved fame and fortune in the field of radio and motion pictures as art ists, The whole writers, worldand knows executives. the story of Amelia Earhart, famous American aviatrix who was lost with her plane in the South Pacific. While a teacher and a social worke r,Copyright she became 2010 interested The Princeton in aviation Licensing and Group becamePublished the firstby Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 297 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONto woman CAMBRIDGE cross the PUBLISHING Atlantic in GROUP an airplane. In 1931, she made a solo flight acro ss the Atlantic and four years later flew the Pacific alone from Honolulu to Cal One writer has said that the vast majority of American men do not believe that w ifornia. omen are even their equals. But when we stop to examine the record, the list of womenis Here who the have story achieved of an American success in woman every who line scored of endeavor a doubleis success an impressive as a homemake one. r and a career woman. She is Mary Roberts Rinehart, who thrilled mystery fans fo r more than fifty years. Necessity forced her to make some money to retrieve the family fortunes which she and her doctor- husband had lost in a stock-market cr ash. With one hand, she wrote those great works of fiction which gained her more than ten million readers, while with the other hand, she tended her children an d handled Many womenthe remain details single of simply housekeeping. because they feel deeply about their careers and are not willing to marry any man who is not supportive. But surely if this scie nce Copyright of creative 2010thinking The Princeton can work Licensing for men, Group it can Published work by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 298 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON also for CAMBRIDGE women even PUBLISHING to theGROUP point of womans actually creating an image of the man of her desires and literally bringing him into reality. In other words, if a wom an visualizes the kind of man she wants and steadfastly holds to the thought, in accordance with the principles of this science, she can bring into her presence This the may object sound of silly her mental to some picture. readers, but I have given this science to many wome n who have used it most effectively. Therefore, if you want a certain type of ma n to walk into your life, merely picture him not necessarily in physical form bu t in the abstract, setting forth in your thought projection the attributes that you would like your man to have. The day will surely come when you will meet him . In a way, it is perhaps superfluous for me to call womens attention to the advant age of using their subconscious mind, for they have always used it. As a matter of fact, they are experts in its use only they have always thought of it as woma ns intuition. My point is that the subconscious is much more than intuition. It p ossesses great forces which can be set in motion for the benefit of men and wome n through the application of the power of dynamic believing. As I pointed out ea rlier, Copyright wonderful 2010 The results Princeton are Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 299 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE brought about by the PUBLISHING conscious GROUP minds conveying the will-to-do through believing t o the subconscious. This immediately sets the subconscious in action to carry ou t the Now the individuals women of modern desires. times have a unique twofold mental advantage. The skille d use of their subconscious mind, characteristic of their sex, has been highly d

eveloped and has been their unconscious, though intuitive, guide through the age s. In addition, their conscious minds have been specially developed by the scien tific method of modern education. I think this combination accounts for the spee d with which women have acquired proficiency in so many of the so-called masculi ne subjects; for womens emerging from the traditional life within the home. As th ey enter into the world, their view of people and practical affairs is broadened and made more objective. Even women in the home have a better comprehension of howfundamental My men work asaim well isas toashow deeper howinterest each person in their can develop childrens his or future her plus-powers careers. , the seeds of which lie within their subconscious mind. These plus-powers will enable Copyright you to 2010 obtain The Princeton the thingsLicensing you want Group and become Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 300 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON what you CAMBRIDGE would like PUBLISHING to be in GROUP addition to what you have and are already. By this new cooperation of the conscious and subconscious minds, you can gain things dee ply necessary to your life and happiness, and also keep undergoing personal deve lopment, Always remember no matter that how the long subconscious you live. mind, besides being the seat of intuition, is a repository of great power and inexhaustible resources. The more you call u pon these resources the more are placed at your disposal. Remember also: the sub conscious is ageless. It can never grow old or tired, and you can draw upon it a ll your life. The only thing you need is the power of believing sincerely, stron gly, and completely. Once the subconscious receives your message and understands your desires and ambitions, it will be only a short time before your desire wil l want I be fulfilled to impress andupon yourmy ambition women readers achieved. that they have the same two minds, consc ious and subconscious, and that through cooperation of the two minds, they can u se this science and succeed just as men have. It is all a matter of believing, a ccording to the principles here set forth. The magic that comes from believing i s Copyright real, for 2010 it has The been Princeton demonstrated Licensing in the Group lives Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 301 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON of someCAMBRIDGE of the most PUBLISHING successful. GROUP It can be demonstrated in your life by your own personal Copyright believing. 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 302 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CHAPTER BELIEF IN 1944MAKES CAMBRIDGE 9 popular a THINGS PUBLISHING magazine HAPPEN ran GROUP a story about a group of scientists in Chicago wh o were experimenting with moths. A female moth of rare species was placed in a r oom, and a male moth of the same species was released four miles away. In a few hours, the male moth was found beating its wings against the window of the room in which the female was confined. The editor declared that he believed that idea s fly with the sureness with which the female moth communicated her whereabouts to the male across incredible barriers to the one mind for which they are origin ally Here Copyright intended. is a simple 2010 The experiment Princeton that Licensing will make Group you Published wonder whether by Princeton the Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 303 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONdont birds CAMBRIDGE possess PUBLISHING telepathic GROUP or clairvoyant power. Put some scraps of bread in t he backyard. There isnt a bird in sight. But hardly have you entered the house be fore birds begin to congregate. First come sparrows, then wrens. In two or three minutes, the yard is filled with birds. Put out anything but food, and not a bi rd appears. What brings them to your yard? How do they know the bread is food fo r them? In his broadcast Science can of February give no answers. 17, 1947, Edwin C. Hill stated that the more scient ists investigate, the more they are convinced that birds and insects have a wire less of their own or some other invisible manner of communication with one anoth er. This theory has long been expounded by nature students, and many books have been written During World War on the II,subject, the Armynotably Signal Corps one byexperimented William J. Long, with carrier How Animals pigeons Talk. and short-wave radio. They found that the pigeons were affected by the radio waves and often, when confused, flew in circles and were lost. Consider that the swall ows of San Juan Capistrano, California, fly away each October 23 and return each March Copyright 19 with 2010 unfailing The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 304 Rights Group Reserved. 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in the Pacific Ocean, then consistently return to the spots from which they depa rted. Cats and dogs taken many miles from their homes have returned. Wild ducks and geese wing their way back to their original localities. Are we not faced wit h the fact that telepathic forces operate in the fish, bird, and animal kingdoms , in writers Some fact, inclaim everything that all around living us?things have the means of communicating with e ach other, and this may not be so farfetched after all. Early in 1945, radio lis teners heard the voices of blinded soldiers telling of their experiences in facia l sight, through which they were able to detect objects in their paths through a sixth sense or kind of mental radar. Dr. Jacob Levine, a Boston psychologist, had charge of the school at Old Farms, in the Avon district of Connecticut where war blinded veterans were taught the use of this sixth sense. He declared that he c ould not explain its mechanics, but he knew that it worked. This facial sight is b ased on the hypothesis that the body radiates definite rays of an unknown variet y which, coming into contact with an object, assemble or group themselves in suc h form as to make a picture of it, after which they return, still bearing the pi cture, Copyright to the 2010 blinded The Princeton person, who Licensing sees Group the returning Published rays by Princeton as they Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 305 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON radiate I have long CAMBRIDGE through beenhis PUBLISHING convinced body. that GROUP various forms of telepathy or thought- transmiss ion are used every day of our lives, far more than most people suspect. I believ e that many leaders, preachers, orators, executives, and so- called super-salesm en, exercise the power to varying degrees, some unconsciously and others thoroug hly conscious of its workings. We meet a person, and before a word is spoken, we experience a like or dislike. What causes the feeling to register but some form of thought- transmission? I have already stated that the only possible explanat ion of healing and affecting others at a distance is through the medium of this phenomenon, I have oftenof sat which in awe famous are only lawyers now beginning office asto heget dictated a scientific lettersexplanation. concerning bus iness affairs. When he dictated, he always paced the floor, and his concentratio n was intense. Once I asked him why he stood while dictating and how it happened In that Copyright the his first letters 2010 place, The always Princeton he replied, accomplished Licensing I think theGroup end better intended. Published on my feet. by Princeton Before ICambridge start Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 306 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE dictating and during PUBLISHING the whole GROUP period that I talk, I visualize before me the per son to whom I write the letter. If I do not know him, I try to picture him as I think he may look. In both cases, I direct all my words to him in person, as tho ugh he were actually before me in the flesh and tell him mentally that my premis essuccessful A are right book and that saleswoman he should told follow me that them. if a customer really wanted to purchas e a book, but was hesitating between two choices, she would keep repeating to he rself but directing her thought to the customer the title of the one best suited to him. She added that many of her sales were made by thought-directive power. An automobile executive told me that when he had a prospect, he always said to h imself, Youre going to buy this car, youre going to buy this car and the prospect di d. Very few people like to believe they are influenced by the silent thoughts of ot hers when it comes to a matter of doing anything. But the fact remains that this invisible power exists, and all of us are subject to this subtle influence, be it telepathy or anything else you want to call it. A little experimenting on you r Copyright part will 2010 convince The Princeton you that it Licensing is both Group formidable Published and active. by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 307 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON I am certain CAMBRIDGE thatPUBLISHING mothers unknowingly GROUP use it on their children, and often childr en use it on their parents. Not infrequently husbands and wives use it on one an other, especially where a man and wife are closely attuned to one another. You w ho are One of the married mostand striking have never examples usedof this this science subtlehave influence a new in field action to explore! came to my attention several years ago. The president of a company I had been helping was d issatisfied with his sales manager, but because of the mans many years of service he didnt wish to discharge him. I was at my wits end, he told me, when I suddenly go t the idea that I could suggest to him mentally that he ought to resign and beco me a salesman instead of remaining as manager. I thought about it for hours one night. The first thing next morning, he came into my office, saying that he woul d like to resign as manager, since he felt that he could make more money by gett

I nearly ing out onfell the off street my chair. as a salesman. I dont know whether I was guilty of using some sort of magic. But my conscience is clear, because the man today is making twice as muc h Copyright money as he 2010 didThe as Princeton sales manager. Licensing Hes Group much Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 308 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON happier, A husband CAMBRIDGE and andwere wife PUBLISHING all going once cameGROUP to see town. me. The man told me that until a few months before our meeting, he had been one of the largest clothing manufacturers in the Midwest, but had sold out and was now traveling the country. For more than thirt y years, he said, I had been a member of one of the largest and oldest secret orga nizations in the world which embraces this theme of believing from A to Izzard. But I, like thousands of others, never had my mind opened to it and I never real ized the truths contained therein. However, several years ago I attended a series of lectures on the subject of mind control, and for the first time my eyes were opened to what a wonderful power man could make available for himself. I could s ee how it would work in our business to tremendous advantage, and I used it. Nee dless to say, our business started to increase as soon as I put it to work, and it has been increasing ever since. During the Depression, when firms like ours w ere having a terrific struggle, we consistently made money, and when I sold out myCopyright At interests, this point 2010 I can his The wife say Princeton entered with all the Licensing modesty conversation: that IPublished Group was Before at the hetop. by started, my Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 309 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE husband wouldnt openly PUBLISHING scoff GROUP at me when I talked about this subject and what I ha d learned at the lectures. But he believed I was wasting my time. I just knew th ere was something to it, and I was certain that if my husband could get hold of it, it would mean a great deal more business for him. I talked and talked to him about attending the lectures, and then one day I realized I was doing the wrong thing Instead of talking to him, I should use the very science I had been taugh t. I went at it with a vengeance. Several times a day, both my daughter and I ke pt repeating to ourselves mentally, Dad is going to go, Dad is going to go. It too k us speak Here You nearly the husband about threeyour broke weeks, tap-tap in: but Dad idea. didWell, go. she certainly worked it on me. When she first talked about what she had heard at the lectures, I just couldnt believe the m to be true. I had been brought up in a very practical business world, and coul dnt get myself to believe in many of the so-called abstract things. However, one day something impelled me to go with her. I didnt know at the time that the somethin g was my wifes mental suggestion, and I had no idea that she and my daughter had b een Copyright working 2010 on me. The However, Princeton it Licensing was the greatest Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 310 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETONthat thing CAMBRIDGE ever happened PUBLISHING to me. GROUP After the first lecture, I did some experimentin g, and our business began to improve and continued to improve until the day I so ld out.get me wrong. I am not religious in an orthodox sense, and what I talk about Dont is not goody-goody stuff, but an exact science. What we think or contemplate dev elops into reality. We radiate our thoughts, perhaps unconsciously, to others, a nd we affect them. We give forth vibrations of dislike or hatred which we engend er in ourselves and, bingo, they come right back and floor us. All one needs to do is to study and understand the law of cause and effect, and it all becomes pl Thought has been referred to as a powerful unseen influence, and so it is. There ain. are so few people you can talk with on this. Most people ignorant of the subject look at you askance when you mention something about it, and now I understand w hy Jesus spoke in parables. However, it probably wont be many years before people generally are into the subject up to their ears. Thousands of enlightened peopl e are recognizing that we are on the threshold of great developments in thought power, Copyright and the 2010 number The Princeton is rapidly Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 311 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE increasing. I wonder PUBLISHING why more GROUP men dont catch hold of it and apply it in their bus inesses, but I guess most are like I used to be they keep their minds closed, an d no one ever takes the trouble to work on them as my wife did on me. All a pers on has to do is to believe, earnestly and sincerely, that such a power of mind e xists and then conscientiously apply the science. Its all just as you say: when o

ne starts tapping the subconscious mind your own or others the bricks fall into place as Alfred F.though Parker, byamagic. highlyDoes respected it work? general And how! insurance agent in the Pacific Nort hwest, wrote to me in 1937, in connection with the use of this science. I do not know whether Mr. Parker was even interested in the subject of telepathy, but he Recently thoroughly I had believed an opportunity in the efficacy to put into of belief. further His practice letter your speaks tapfortap itself: idea, a nd I thought that you might be interested in knowing the circumstances. I have a small son who on December 29, 1936, picked up some obscure infection. For days he lay desperately ill in the hospital. There was grave doubt that he would live . Copyright I was in terrible 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 312 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE anguish, but I resolved PUBLISHING to meet GROUP the situation as best I could. Taking a tip from you, I put his picture on my desk and carried another in my pocket. Every hour of the day I looked at them and repeated to myself, He will recover, he will reco At first I felt I was lying to myself, as he hardly seemed to have an even chanc ver. e. However, I kept it up and gradually found myself believing what I kept repeat ing. At just about that time, thanks to the best medical and nursing attention a nd some of a friends blood transfused to him, the boy actually did begin to recov er.may It He have is now been at mere home coincidence and regaining that histhe strength time when fast. empty words began to turn i nto belief was the time when recovery began. But at least such coincidence is wo rthy people Some of note. have walked into a darkened room and felt the presence of someone th ere, even before a word was uttered. Certainly, nothing but the vibrations of so me unseen individual could have indicated his presence to the other person. Evid ence of telepathy? What do you think? It is maintained that if, at the entry of the Copyright second person, 2010 The the Princeton first person Licensing in the Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 313 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON room thinks CAMBRIDGE of something PUBLISHING entirely GROUP foreign to himself and dismisses all thought o f the possibility of his discovery, the second person will not sense his presenc e. Thousands of people have thought of someone, only to hear from them or see th em shortly thereafter, without giving any heed to the phenomena involved. These experiences are usually considered coincidences. But isnt the power of thought th e real explanation? Anyone with an open mind and willing to read and experiment will sooner or later conclude that the phenomena of psychokinesis and telepathy are realities, and, as investigators have pointed out, that these powers are lat ent in everyone, Hudson, in his Law though of Psychic developed Phenomena, to varying originally degrees. published in 1893, recounted numerous experiments to prove the existence of telepathy, among them one that m ade use of playing cards. One member of a group of people was blindfolded, after which another member selected a card, and the others present were told to conce ntrate on it. The blindfolded person was then asked to name it, according to the first mental impression he received. The results were further proof of the vali dity Here Copyright of a is telepathy. simple 2010 The experiment Princeton that Licensing may be carried Group Published out by only by Princeton three Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 314 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE people. Cut from a PUBLISHING magazine five GROUPcolored slips of paper, each about half an inch wide and three inches long. The more vivid the colors (such as bright red or el ectric blue), the better, but be sure to have them quite distinct from one anoth er. One person should then place them fan-wise between the thumb and forefinger of their right hand, as you would hold a hand of cards. Let a second person touc h any one of the colored slips, without being seen by the third person Immediate ly after this, the person holding the slips concentrates their mind on the color ed slip selected, with a view of communicating the information to the mind of th e third person, who is then asked to indicate which slip the second person touch The third persons decision must be immediate and spontaneous, and they should eit ed. her make their mind a blank or be thinking of something entirely remote from the experiment. That is, they should not attempt to guess, deliberate, or conscious ly try to think of the color of the slip selected, but should act immediately up on the first mental impulse they receives The number of times the third person w ill name the colored slip selected by the second person will astound you. With a little practice, people who are more or less en rapport (such as a husband hold

ing the slips and the wife acting as the third person, after some second person Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu has blishing All www.successmanual.com 315 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE previously indicated PUBLISHING a choice) GROUP will make an even higher score of successes. I ha ve seen Here again, thisbelief done twenty must come to thirty into play. rimesThe without holder a of single the slips miss. must possess not just the ability to maintain an unwavering concentration, but the strong belief Let that mehe interpose or she can a word transmit of caution. the image This ofexperiment, the color to asthe well third as others persons outlined mind. in this book, should never be attempted in the presence of scoffers or those who profess disbelief in psychic phenomena. Their negative thoughts may confuse and obstruct the free flow of your own, especially if their skepticism is aggressiv e. Always remember that belief is a power operating destructively or constructiv ely, depending upon the end to which it is employed. (Dr Rhine discovered that d isbelieving could depress the results in the psychokinesis tests.) In addition. Dr. G. R. Schmeidler of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, where extensive experi ments in telepathy have been made, pointed out that subjects who maintain that t elepathy is a myth invariably show scores far below chance. Once more, we see th e Copyright magic of believing 2010 The Princeton in action.Licensing Believe that Group itPublished will work, byand Princeton it Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 316 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON will. The great Believe CAMBRIDGE French that PUBLISHING astronomer it will not GROUP and work, scientist, and itCamille wont! Flammarion, was an early expo nent of thought-transmission. He held somewhat to the theory later advanced by P rofessors Eddington and Jeans, claiming that there was mind not only in human an d animal life, but in everything in plants, minerals, even space and he declared Early that in mind 1947, gleams Dr.through Phillips every Thomas atom. publicly announced that upon re- firing, he i ntended to devote his time to research in the field of telepathy. Dr. Thomas sai d, You may think Im crazy, but I intend to devote my time to research in this fiel d. We cant conceive scientifically how [telepathy] could come about, but neither can we This Before announcement explain you exclaim, thecaused apparent Ha, another thesuccess Portland crackpot! ofOregonian mindreflect readers. to comment that Dr. editorially: Phillips Thomas is an e minent Copyright scientist 2010 The who Princeton for many years Licensing has been Group research Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 317 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE engineer with thePUBLISHING Westinghouse GROUP Company. Now he elects to become an explorer of t hatmust It lastbe dark evident continent, to thethe veriest humanskeptic mind . that . . Dr. Thomas, international authori ty on electronics, is convinced by evidence not lightly to be dismissed that in our sedulous application to what may be called conventional science, we have rat her stupidly neglected those challenging phenomena which in times past bore the stigma The proper of sorcery and rational and witchcraft attitude toward . . . the seeming phenomena of the mind if tha t is what they are is one of scientific inquiry which, though rigorously exactin g, will not resist conviction when incontestable proof has been obtained. Actual ly there can be no such thing as a supernatural phenomenon, but only the manifes tation of natural law as yet unknown to us. Nor is it without precedent, this de cision of a distinguished scientist to attempt penetration of the unknown contin ent of the mind . . . Dogmatic disbelief, not infrequently manifested by scienti sts toward telepathy and similar manifestations, is far from a scientific attitu Copyright 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu de. blishing All www.successmanual.com 318 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON What profit CAMBRIDGE to mankind PUBLISHING is there GROUP in the quest to which Dr. Thomas presently shall address himself? This is a most difficult question for it may be that the inner secrets are, indeed, inviolable. But if of this research comes a better underst anding of ourselves, and of the forces latent in mind, the knowledge might liber atethe In more late happiness 1940s, much for the wasrace. written about Robert R. Young, the aggressive and en ergetic chairman of the Board of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and his plans fo r railroad improvement and development. While I never saw anything in print stat ing that Mr. Young utilized the subconscious, anyone knowing anything about the subject would conclude that Mr. Young relied greatly upon it for his ideas. An a rticle in Life Magazine early in 1947 stated that Mr. Young believed in extrasens ory perception and that he could become almost mystical about getting off by himse lf and feeling Whether it be mind, a truth. as we understand the general usage of the word, or electrica

l vibrations of some kind, the conclusion is that the phenomena themselves embra ce and pervade everything, call them what you wish. So when we consider the subc onscious Copyright of 2010 a single The Princeton individualLicensing as only an Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 319 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE infinitesimal part PUBLISHING of the whole GROUP and the vibrations there from extending to and e mbracing everything, we get a better understanding of psychokinesis, telepathy, andexplaining In kindred phenomena. psychokinesis, Dr. Rhine pointed out that if a person is to be suc cessful in the experiments, there must be a mental attitude of expectancy, conce ntration of thought, and enthusiasm for the desired results. Again we have the m agic of believing at work. The subject must have a prior belief that they can in fluence the fall of the dice. Belief is the basic factor in the ability to demon strate psychokinesis (control of mind over matter) and telepathy as was also con firmed in experiments at Duke University. New York Herald Tribune science editor , John J. ONeill, reported that in these experiments, it was possible to kid a pers on told He out of how their a young power woman to demonstrate distracted one psychokinesis of the young andmen telepathy. attempting to control the fall of the dice, and scoffed at his professed ability to demonstrate his po wer of mind over matter. She succeeded in injecting such a strong negative facto r that she weakened his belief in himself and ruined his score for the day. Mr. ONeill Copyright made2010 an interesting The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 320 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE speculation when he PUBLISHING went on to GROUP say, The converse of this experiment, still to be made, would test the possibilities for improving the score by a confidence-inspi ring In view pepof talk. the thousands of experiments made at Duke and other universities, it is apparent that scores improve when the experimenters believe and are confident of the results. Also, nothing is more logical than that pep talks should help t hose who lack confidence or belief, and thus should improve their scores. If gol f shots can be influenced by mental attitudes or proper visualization, and the ga lloping ivories turn up at the players mental command, who is to say that events a re not influenced by thought? Before us, this field is gradually yielding some s ecrets of the ancient mysteries. Isnt the so-called luck factor in reality brough t about by powerful thought vibrations, rather than coincidence or chance? Write rs, long before the experiments at Duke, declared that luck came about from a de termined mind a combination of visualizing, concentrated thought, willing, and b elieving Think about this in connection with yourself and the goals you have set for Copyright yourself, 2010 for The inPrinceton it lies the Licensing primaryGroup secret Published of this by science. Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 321 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Gamblers often apply PUBLISHING the word GROUP hot to card players or crap shooters when they have a winning streak. When the hot period wears off, the gamblers either quit the ga me or begin to lose. What is this streak of good luck? Nothing more than an allknowing feeling, a deep-rooted belief that they can win. Even in gambling, the m agic Of course, of believing this book plays is not a major written role. for professional gamblers, but for sincere m en and women who wish to succeed in life. I refer to games of chance only to pro vide further evidence that concentrated thought, expectancy, and steadfast belie f actually set in motion vibratory forces that bring about material manifestatio As I stated before, charms, amulets, and talismans have no power in themselves. ns. But those who believe in them firmly and unquestionably tend to develop the kind of force or power now known as psychokinetic. I have tried to make plain how th is belief can be developed to take you up the ladder as far as you wish to go. I must point out, though, that it is easy to lose ones belief or faith. Thousands have risen to great heights of success, only to stumble and fall to undreamed-of depths. Others, seeking health, have appeared to be more or less miraculously c ured, Copyright only to 2010 find The that Princeton their Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 322 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE ailments recur years PUBLISHING or evenGROUP months later. There are many weakening factors and influences all suggestive in nature which, in unguarded moments, we allow to sli p into our subconscious minds. Once there, they begin their destructive work and

undo all the good our constructive forces accomplished. So step out in front, h I realize ead towardits the difficult sun. Keep for facing theit, average and dark person shadows who knows will nothing not cross ofyour thispath. subject to accept the idea that all is within. But even as far as the most materialistic person is concerned, nothing exists for them unless they have knowledge of it o r unless it becomes fixed in their consciousness. The images created in their mi nd give reality to the world outside of them. Therefore happiness, sought by man y and found by few, is a matter entirely within ourselves. Your environment and the everyday happenings of life have absolutely no effect on your happiness exce pt as you permit mental images of the outside to enter your consciousness. Happi ness is wholly independent of position, wealth, or material possessions. It is a state of mind which we ourselves have the power to control and that control lie s Copyright with our thinking. 2010 The Princeton Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 323 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE Consider that everything PUBLISHING isGROUP opinion, and opinion is in thy power, said the great p hilosopher Marcus Aurelius Antonius. Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opin ion; and like a mariner who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, eve rything A modernstable, versionand of this a waveless is found bay. in the statement of my seventy-eight- year-old friend, who said, Distress ensues only when developed by conscious mental attitu des. Disappointments, suppressions, melancholy, depressions, etc. all are emotio nal excitations or suggestions from a mode of thinking. If you resisted these em otional tendencies and assert will- power to prevent such influences reaching yo ur consciousness, the foundation of the thought disappears. Consequently, the di stress vanishes. Weakness to resist repressing thoughts and imagination arising from emotional reflex both develop from failure of self-control. Stop thinking! Refuse to think that idea or way. Assert yourself to be the creator and boss of your own habit of thought in fact, become unconquerable. No one ever defeated a resoluteasked, Emerson will. What Even death is the stands hardest still task before in the such world? a will. To think. This is obviously so, Copyright when one2010 considers The Princeton that most Licensing of us are Group victims Published of mass by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 324 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE thinking and feedPUBLISHING upon suggestions GROUP from others. We all know that the law of caus e and effect is inviolable. Yet how many of us ever pause to consider its workin gs? Many times, the entire course of a mans life has been changed by a single tho ught coming to him in a flash. History is replete with strong-minded, resolutely willed individuals who, steadfastly holding to their inner convictions, have be en able to inspire their fellow-man. In the face of tremendous and determined op position, they have created literally out of nothing great businesses, huge empi res, had They and no altered monopoly the of whole thought-power. current of human You and events. every other man and woman have it . All you have to do is to use it. You will then become the person you envisage in your imagination; for with the working of the law of cause and effect, you br ing into your life the new elements which your most dominant thoughts create fro m within creative Positive and attract thought from leads outside. to action and ultimate realization. But the real power, much more than action itself, is the thought. Remember always, Whatever m an can conceive mentally, he can bring into materialization. If the proper mental pictures Copyright are 2010 created The Princeton and constantly Licensing Group Published by Princeton Cambridge Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 325 Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING CLAUDE BRISTOL SUCCESS MANUAL STRATEGIST EDITION 2010 PRI NCETON CAMBRIDGE maintained, health, PUBLISHING wealth, and GROUP happiness must follow, for the law of cause and effectThyself. Know is immutable. Know your power. Read and reread this book until it becomes a part o f your daily life. Faithfully use the cards and the mirror technique, and you wi ll get results far beyond your fondest expectations. Just believe that there is genuine creative magic in believing and magic there will be, for belief will sup ply the power for you to succeed in everything you undertake. Back your belief w ith Copyright a resolute 2010 will, The Princeton and you become Licensing unconquerable, Group Published a master by Princeton among men Cambridge yourself. Pu blishing All www.successmanual.com 326 END Rights Group Reserved. Princeton, www.prosperitybible.com New Jersey, United States of America COMING THE WATTLES SOON PROSPERITY FROM PRINCETON BIBLE CAMBRIDGE A FIVE-VOLUME PUBLISHING COMPILATION GROUP! OF THE ENTIRE WORKS OF WA LLACE The most D. comprehensive, WATTLES authoritative Collection of Works by Law of Attraction w riter, teacher and sage, Wallace D. 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